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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Jim Weston tell Daisy that he could kiss her every day ("as regular as pig-tracks")?
(a) Right before the trial.
(b) When they were children.
(c) Just before the fight.
(d) Before she moved up North.

2. What evidence does Sister Hambo provide to prove that she is telling the truth?
(a) She belongs to Macedonia Baptist Church and cannot lie.
(b) She swears on her mother's grave that she is telling the truth.
(c) Everyone in town knows that she always tells the truth.
(d) She has six children, and they are all as honest as she is.

3. What is missing when Joe Clarke tries to begin the trial?
(a) Dave Carter.
(b) The defendant.
(c) The gavel.
(d) The witnesses.

4. According to Reverend Childers, what is the most dangerous weapon in the world?
(a) A flirtatious woman.
(b) The hock bone of a mule.
(c) The anger of one friend toward another.
(d) The jealousy of a man in love.

5. What does Daisy threaten to do when both Jim Weston and Dave Carter try to hug her?
(a) She threatens to leave town and return to the North.
(b) She threatens to go to her mother's house and leave them standing along the railroad.
(c) She threatens to leave them both and go back to work.
(d) She threatens to find another man who will appreciate her.

6. Why does Daisy begin to cry when speaking to Jim Weston in Act 3?
(a) He threatens to leave her alone in the dark.
(b) He gets angry and slaps her.
(c) He says he does not love her and he never really loved her.
(d) He says a woman cannot be trusted.

7. Hambo accuses Deacon Simms of telling what lie?
(a) That Joe Clarke sells stale bread, and Hambo defends him.
(b) That Jim Weston's father was run out of town, but he was lynched by white people.
(c) That Dave Carter stepped on Jim Weston's foot on purpose, but it was an accident.
(d) That Dave Carter has another girlfriend in another town, but it is untrue.

8. What are Jim Weston and Dave Carter doing as the curtain falls?
(a) Jim Weston is playing his guitar, and Dave Carter is singing and dancing alongside.
(b) Jim Weston begins by humming a tune, and Dave Carter begins to sing the lyrics.
(c) They are walking arm in arm on their way back into town.
(d) Jim Weston is humming a tune, and Dave Carter is whistling the same tune.

9. To prove his love for Daisy, how much time would Jim Weston do on a chain gang?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Fifty years.
(c) Forty years.
(d) Life.

10. How does Brother Nixon respond to Sister Lewis' chastisement?
(a) He pretends that he cannot hear her.
(b) He looks at her innocently and pretends that he has done nothing.
(c) He mocks her and shakes himself at her.
(d) He apologizes and then sits quietly.

11. What is Jim Weston's sentence for his crime?
(a) Community service.
(b) Two years of exile from the town.
(c) Two months imprisoned in the barn.
(d) Two years of hard labor.

12. Where does Jim Weston plan to go when he gets up to leave after sitting on the railroad tracks?
(a) He has no idea where he will go.
(b) He plans to go right back into town.
(c) He plans to go to Maitland.
(d) He plans to follow the tracks into Georgia.

13. How much time would Dave Carter do on a chain gang in order to prove his love for Daisy?
(a) Forty years.
(b) Twenty years.
(c) Fifty years.
(d) Life.

14. Where do Daisy and Jim Weston plan to go?
(a) They do not know where they are going.
(b) They are going to move to Maitland.
(c) They plan to go to Daisy's mother's house.
(d) They plan to go back into town.

15. What does Sister Taylor suggest that Sister Lewis should do for her daughter?
(a) She should get her some new clothes so she does not have to wear sack cloth.
(b) She should get the sheriff to make one of her many boyfriends marry her.
(c) She should teach her how to properly wash herself.
(d) She should get her buck teeth fixed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason is given to support the idea of the Baptist minister leading the prayer before trial?

2. What clue in their verbal competition for Daisy suggests that Dave Carter and Jim Weston have put aside their differences?

3. How is Jim Weston escorted out of town?

4. What problem do the Methodists have with the sermon that Reverend Childers preached on the day before the trial?

5. How do Jim Weston and Dave Carter express their love for Daisy?

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