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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knocks on the door and enters?

2. What does Ellie suddenly ask?

3. What is the press calling the fight?

4. What do Cameron's questions about how Ellie and Jack behaved on the boat suggest?

5. Why do the marchers leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mrs. Jefferson's funeral procession.

2. How does Jack respond when Smitty asks him if he is being so stubborn because he wants to keep the champion title a little longer?

3. About what are Goldie and Tick concerned?

4. Why does Jack call Ellie honey?

5. How does this scene open?

6. What suggestion does Cap'n Dan give to convince Jack to take part in the fixed fight? How do the other men respond to this?

7. What is Cameron's response to these complaints?

8. How does Jack respond to Ragosy's request? What is Ellie's reaction?

9. How is Brady convinced to fight this match?

10. How does the play begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jack's last fight is rigged.

Part 1) How does this come about? Why is this fight rigged?

Part 2) What does this rigged fight symbolize?

Part 3) Why does Jack accept this rigged fight? What does this reveal about his character at this point in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Jack and Ellie perform scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Part 1) What is Uncle Tom's Cabin? Why is this significant?

Part 2) What does this performance reveal about Jack? How does it echo events in previous scenes?

Part 3) Is this performance an effective way to indirectly reveal what is happening to Jack's character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Ellie is much like Jack.

Part 1) How are they alike? How does this affect their relationship?

Part 2) how are they different? How does this affect both of them, as well as others?

Part 3) How does their relationship and characters change throughout the play? What is the connection between these changes?

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