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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) 4 p.m. at the United Methodist Church.
(b) 3 p.m. at the United Methodist Church.
(c) Noon at the Macedonia Baptist Church.
(d) 3 p.m. at the Macedonia Baptist Church.

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

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 wants him to come live with her and her mother.
(c) She has found another man and is going to live with him in the North.
(d) She has come to town to find out about the trial.

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

5. How does Jim Weston react when Daisy puts her hand on his arm to comfort him?
(a) He puts his hand on hers and looks into her eyes.
(b) He leans into her and puts his head on her shoulder.
(c) He jumps as if she has jabbed him with a hot poker.
(d) He shakes her hand off and accuses her of being against him.

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

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

8. 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.

9. What problem do the Methodists have with the sermon that Reverend Childers preached on the day before the trial?
(a) His ideas are not supported by the Bible's teachings.
(b) They accuse him of trying the case before the actual trial.
(c) The sermon was too sympathetic to Jim Weston's case.
(d) The sermon lasted far too long.

10. Why is Daisy in a hurry when Jim Weston runs into her?
(a) She only has a few free minutes and has to hurry back to work.
(b) She is being pursued by a strange man.
(c) She has just left work and is coming to see how the trial turned out.
(d) She knows that her mother will be upset if she comes home late again.

11. What does Jim Weston take with him as he leaves town?
(a) His guitar and jacket.
(b) His guitar and a picture of him and Dave Carter.
(c) A small suitcase and his guitar.
(d) His guitar and a handkerchief that Daisy made for him.

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

13. Who defends herself by saying that everyone's house has some bedbugs and lice?
(a) Sister Lewis.
(b) Sister Hambo.
(c) Sister Thomas.
(d) Sister Taylor.

14. According to Jim Weston, what kind of man does Daisy need?
(a) A man who does not mind being bossed.
(b) A man who does not mind working hard and getting up early.
(c) A man who will keep her in line.
(d) A man who does not mind being lied to.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Baptists respond to Jim Weston entering the church?

2. On the charge of assault and battery, how does Jim Weston plead?

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

4. According to Lige Mosely, why should a Baptist be afraid to go swimming?

5. What argument does Deacon Simms use to defend Jim Weston?

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