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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the women react when Lum Boger comes back to quiet them?
(a) They quiet down for a bit.
(b) They threaten him and warn him not to come near them.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They apologize and quickly quiet down.

2. What order does Joe Clarke give to the people at the trial before they leave the church?
(a) He orders them to disperse quietly and return to their homes.
(b) He orders them to help Lum Boger escort Jim Weston out of town.
(c) He orders them to leave their neighbors alone and mind their own business.
(d) He orders them to leave church grounds before they begin to fight.

3. What does Daisy say to Jim Weston in Act 3 that changes his mood?
(a) On the night of the fight, she had come to town to see him.
(b) She has come to town to find out about the trial.
(c) She has found another man and is going to live with him in the North.
(d) She wants him to come live with her and her mother.

4. How do the Baptists respond to Jim Weston entering the church?
(a) In unison, they all turn their backs on him.
(b) The whisper about him as he walks up the aisle.
(c) They cheer him and shout words of encouragement.
(d) They taunt him with chicken and rooster calls.

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

6. Sister Lewis chastises Brother Nixon for what offense?
(a) He was talking during the trial, and she could not hear.
(b) He let his cow get into her strawberry patch.
(c) He hangs his coat on one of the church's empty lamp brackets.
(d) He stepped over her without asking her pardon.

7. How does Sister Taylor defend herself when Joe Lindsay chastises her for arguing in church?
(a) She criticizes him for not feeding his horse.
(b) She says she is not the only one who is talking.
(c) She criticizes him for beating his wife.
(d) She says he has no right to tell her what to do.

8. What accusation do the Methodists hurl at Dave Carter when he enters the church?
(a) They believe that he is faking his injury, trying to look hurt.
(b) They believe that he started the fight and deserved what he got.
(c) They belive that he just wants to cause trouble in town.
(d) They believe that he has stolen Joe Clarke's chickens.

9. According to Jim Weston, how much does he love Daisy?
(a) As much as a mother bear loves her cub.
(b) So much that he is about to explode.
(c) So much that he would eat a live scorpion for her.
(d) As much as God loves his best angel, Gabriel.

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

11. Why does Deacon Simms refuse to allow Reverend Childers to use his Bible?
(a) He is afraid that Reverend Childers will soil his pages.
(b) Reverend Childers is a Baptist and cannot read anyway.
(c) He says any good preacher would have brought his own Bible.
(d) Deacon Simms' children gave the Bible to him, so it's special.

12. Deacon Simms accuses Dave Carter of what?
(a) Of feeling jealous of Jim Weston.
(b) Of living an unclean life.
(c) Of lying to Jim Weston about his injuries.
(d) Of stealing Daisy away from Jim Weston.

13. What reason is given to support the idea of the Methodist minister leading the prayer?
(a) The Baptists started the trouble, so they have no business leading a prayer.
(b) Dave Carter is a Methodist, so his preacher should say the prayer.
(c) The Methodists say better prayers than the Baptists.
(d) The Methodist minister has more formal education.

14. How does Jim Weston respond to the Baptists' actions when he enters the church?
(a) He jumps over a church bench and punches one of them.
(b) He tries to run out of the church and escape.
(c) He threatens them with physical harm if they bother him.
(d) He hangs his head and refuses to make eye contact with anyone.

15. How is Jim Weston escorted out of town?
(a) Joe Clarke marches him out of town with a crowd of angry people behind him.
(b) The Methodists are trying to throw him out of town, and the Baptists are trying to pull him back in.
(c) The Baptists are trying to throw him out of town, and the Methodists are trying to pull him back in.
(d) Lum Boger quietly walks him to edge of town and wishes him good luck.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Reverend Childers, why is an ass bone close to a mule bone?

2. What does Jim Weston assume when he sees Dave coming down the tracks?

3. What does Jim Weston do as he sits alone on the railroad tracks?

4. Why does Joe Clarke get frustrated with Lum Boger?

5. Jim Weston accuses Daisy of hurrying back to town to do what?

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