Inherit the Wind TEST

Question 1

Who watches over and babies her husband - and her husband often calls her mother?

Answer 1

Mrs. Brady

Question 2

Who is a famous lawyer from Chicago whom the Baltimore Herold sends to be the defense attorney?

Answer 2

Henry Drummond

Question 3

Who gives Matthew Harrison Brady the honorary title of colonel?

Answer 3

Judge

Question 4

Who is the 22 year old second grade teacher who is a close friend of the defendant’s?

Answer 4

Rachel brown

Question 5

Who is the head of religion in Hillsboro who scares people into believing in God?

Answer 5

Rev Brown

Question 6

Who is a national political figure and a 3-time loser in presidential campaigns who arrives in Hillsboro to lead the prosecution of the trail?

Answer 6

Brady

Question 7

Who is a student in Cate’s science class who teases another kid, stating that she evolved from worms?

Answer 7

Howard

Question 8

Who is the bailiff at the courthouse?

Answer 8

Meeker

Question 9

Who is the 24 year old science teacher and the defendant in the trial?

Answer 9

Bertram Cates

Question 10

Who is a cynical and sarcastic newspaperman and critic who travels to Hillsboro to cover the trial from the Baltimore Herald?

Answer 10

EK Hornbeck

Question 11

What is the name of the book by Charles Darwin that explain his theory of evolution?

Answer 11

Origin of species

Question 12

Why is the opening scene in the play important?

Answer 12

It is the main conflict of the play

Question 13

How do the townspeople of Hillsboro welcome Brady?

Answer 13

Having a picnic lunch

Question 14

Who is the protagonist of the play?

Answer 14

Bertrum Cates

Question 15

What is the setting of the play? (Place)

Answer 15

Hillsboro, Tennessee

Question 16

What is the setting of the play? (time)

Answer 16

A time not long ago

Question 17

Who did Henry Drummond call to the stand to serve as an expert on the bible?

Answer 17

Matthew Harrison Brady

Question 18

Who dies at the end of the play?

Answer 18

Matthew Harrison Brady

Question 19

When Drummond hold the Bible and Darwin’s book in both hands - what does it show he believes?

Answer 19

That both books are equal

Question 20

What was the Golden Dancer?

Answer 20

The name of a rocking horse Drummond received as a little boy

Question 21

Why does Rachel feel guilty about her conversation with Brady?

Answer 21

She is worried about inadvertently hurting Bert

Question 22

What title does the mayor bestow upon Brady?

Answer 22

Honorary Colonel

Question 23

How does the town refer to Drummond?

Answer 23

The devil

Question 24

How many times has Matthew Harrison Brady run for president?

Answer 24

3 times

Question 25

EK Hornbeck writes for what newspaper?

Answer 25

Baltimore Herald

Question 26

What crime did Bert Cates commit?

Answer 26

For teaching evolution

Question 27

What commercial announcement does the judge make after court has been adjourned?

Answer 27

a prayer meeting

Question 28

Who said AND what does the following quote mean:
“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fell to say, “I don’t know.”

Answer 28

Drummond
that we do not have everything figured out. A smarter person will say I don’t know.

Question 29

Who said AND what does the following quote mean:
“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away by standing still.”

Answer 29

Drummond
He is talking about how Brady and he were once close but Brady did not evolve or grow.

Question 30

Who said AND what does the following quote mean:
“Which is hungrier my stomach or my soul?”

Answer 30

EK Hornbeck
Deciding what he would take a Bible or a hot dog

Question 31

Who said AND what does the following quote mean:
“Excuse me, gentlemen. I must get me to a typewriter and hammer out they story of an atheist who believes in God.”

Answer 31

EK Hornbeck
Referring to Drummond and his ability to recite the Bible

Question 32

Discuss the major themes of the play and how these themes show up through the story?

Answer 32

Freedom of Thought - - -
Evolution - - the author used evolution as a metaphor for control over an individual’s thoughts or beliefs.

Question 33

Describe the main conflict. Discuss Cates’s conflict, how he deals with it and how the conflict is resolved?

Answer 33

Man vs Society - - After being arrested for teaching evolution to his science classes, Bertram Cates becomes the center of a controversial trial about religious fundamentalism versus the freedom of individual thought

Question 34

How does Rachel change throughout the play? What does this tell us about the conflict and themes of the play?

Answer 34

At first just goes along to get along AND she is very afraid to go against her father.
At the end of the play she decides to stand up for her rights to think and decides to leave her father and goes with Bertram

Question 35

When Drummond holds the Bible and Darwin’s book in his hands, what is he balancing them like? What does this show about his opinion of both books?

Answer 35

Like his hands are a scale. He is showing that both of the should have equal value.

Question 36

What was the Golden Dancer and why does Drummond tell Cates about it?

Answer 36

Golden Dancer was a wooden rocking horse that Drummond saw in a window of a store. It was poorly made (all shine and no substance.)
He says to be careful of brining shiny perfect things into your life - you have to look behind the paint. If it is a lie - show that lie for what it is

Question 37

What does the line, “He that troubleth his own house . . . shall inherit the wind mean? Who says this and why?

Answer 37

You should not be cursing your family (referring to Rev Brown talking about cursing his daughter). he should be trying to save her soul. Brady will not inherit/or gain anything except the wind.