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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why is the church bell rung?
(a) Lum Boger rings the bell to signal the beginning of the trial.
(b) Hambo rings the bell as a way of ushering Jim Weston out of town.
(c) Deacon Simms rings the bell to draw attention to his client's case.
(d) It was an accident; someone fell and grabbed the rope.

4. How does Daisy respond when Dave Carter asks if she loves him?
(a) She does not answer, but plays coy and changes the subject.
(b) She takes his hand and just smiles at him.
(c) She responds with an enthusiastic yes and hangs on his neck.
(d) She shakes her head and grabs Jim Weston's hand.

5. Why does Dave Carter insist that no one in town has any right to determine Jim Weston's punishment?
(a) No one in town has any legal power.
(b) None of the people in town know anything about the law anyway.
(c) Jim Weston has been tried once; they cannot try him again.
(d) Jim Weston hit Dave Carter, so no one else but Dave should have anything to say about it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are Jim Weston and Dave Carter doing as the curtain falls?

3. When did Jim Weston tell Daisy that he could kiss her every day ("as regular as pig-tracks")?

4. What order does Joe Clarke give to the people at the trial before they leave the church?

5. How does Jim Weston react when a person from the mob throws something at him?

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