Three levels of questions for

Inherit the Wind

Questions of fact:

1. What kind of creatures is Howard playing with at the start of the play?

2. What does Bert Cates think of the food at his boarding house?

3. From what book did Cates read to his science class?

4. What is written on the banner in the town?

5. What sort of causes did Matthew Harrison Brady support in the past?

6. What kind of fruit does Hornbeck offer to Rachel

7. How do both lawyers come to be called �colonel�?

8. What does Drummond think of people who know all the answers?

9. How many scientists does Drummond call to the stand?

10. How did Brady die?

Questions of interpretation:

1. Why do worms and a monkey appear in the opening scenes?

2. Why would the storekeeper think that opinions are bad for business?

3. Why is Cates more hated than a murderer from Minnesota?

4. Why is the same verse from Proverbs quoted twice?

5. Why does Drummond say the progress in never a bargain?

6. When Melinda asks Howard who won the trial, why doe he say he isn�t sure?

7. Why has Rachel been afraid to think seriously before?

8. Why does Drummond walk off with two books that don�t belong to him?

9. Does the judge in the trial treat both sides fairly?

Questions of evaluation:

1. Should schoolteachers be allowed to teach whatever they want?

2. Are science and religion natural enemies to each other?

3. Should we obey and enforce the law, even if we disagree with it?

4. Should both Darwin and Biblical creation be taught in the public schools?

5. Are there books and ideas that are so dangerous we should not ever look at them?

6. Is this play an example of a �lie that tells the truth�?