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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A moment later a crowd of marchers enters, doing what?
(a) Carrying placards that denounce Jack.
(b) Carrying placards that denounce the cafe.
(c) Carrying placards that denounce black people.
(d) Carrying placards that denounce Brady.

2. Where are several things are going on, such as a dice game, bets on the outcome of the fight, and a performer in blackface performing for a group of fans unable to get into the arena itself?
(a) Down the street from the arena.
(b) Inside the arena in Reno.
(c) Outside the arena in Reno.
(d) Outside Jack's trailer.

3. What are Tick, his black trainer, and Ellie, his white girlfriend, watching Jack do?
(a) Have his hands taped.
(b) Yell at another boxer.
(c) Shadow box.
(d) Box with his trainer.

4. Who says that the black man did not fight "like a man" in a match in Australia?
(a) Cap'n Dan.
(b) Smitty.
(c) Brady.
(d) Fred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed about Jack and Ellie, regarding how they met?

2. Why does Cap'n Dan tell Brady the whole country is going to feel let down?

3. When Cap'n Dan and Fred discuss the terms of the fight, who is named the referee?

4. When does Goldie say the fight is scheduled?

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

(see the answer key)

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