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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. How does the play begin?
(a) With an argument over whether Brady should be the new Great White Hope.
(b) With an argument over where Brady will go to train.
(c) With an argument over whether Brady, the current white heavyweight boxing champion, should fight an up-and-coming black boxer.
(d) With a a meeting to discuss who Brady should fight next.

2. What is Cameron's response to this well-spoken black man?
(a) He has a good point.
(b) He is just like Jack.
(c) He is wrong.
(d) He is crazy.

3. What does a reporter call Brady?
(a) The New Hope.
(b) The White Hope.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Our Hope.

4. How does Smitty respond when Goldie tells him to fetch some police?
(a) Those are the police.
(b) The police will show up unbidden.
(c) The police will support the crowd.
(d) The police will ignore him.

5. About what does the performer joke?
(a) How he wishes he were really black.
(b) How he hopes others will support Jack.
(c) How he hopes he is not the only black person around.
(d) How he wants to wash his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what are Goldie and Tick concerned?

2. How do the white people in the audience respond?

3. What does Jack tell the crowd?

4. What does Goldie plead with Jack to not do?

5. Who says that the black man did not fight "like a man" in a match in Australia?

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