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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cap'n Dan refuse to have the fight in any large cities?
(a) Brady will get lost in the "big city."
(b) I can't stand "city folk."
(c) Brady needs to be a "big fish in a small pond."
(d) "Every nigger and his brother" will be there.

2. What do the men say a good White Hope could do?
(a) Make Jack more popular.
(b) Resolve the situation.
(c) Cause racial tension.
(d) Destroy Jack.

3. What does Goldie plead with Jack to not do?
(a) Lie to the press.
(b) Make Ellie talk to the press.
(c) End his relationship with Ellie.
(d) Throw his relationship with Ellie in their faces.

4. About what is the performer's song?
(a) He wishes he were a "coon."
(b) Whether Jack is a "coon."
(c) A "coon" wishing he was white.
(d) What it takes to be a "coon."

5. What is revealed about Jack and Ellie, regarding how they met?
(a) They were on the same boat coming back from Australia.
(b) They met in a bar in Chicago.
(c) They were in the same hotel in Sydney.
(d) They met on a boat going to Australia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Knowing Jack is involved with a white girl is going to do what?

2. What do the marchers and black people begin to do?

3. Why does Goldie ask Ellie to excuse them?

4. How does Jack greet Brady?

5. How does the play begin?

(see the answer key)

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