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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Mrs. Jefferson worry?
(a) How horrible Jack's sentence will be.
(b) How long it is taking to get news from the courthouse.
(c) If they will kill Jack.
(d) If Jack will run away.

2. How does the young man respond when Jack turns to him and asks what winning is going to do for him directly?
(a) It will give him something to be happy about.
(b) It will give him self-respect.
(c) He cannot answer.
(d) It will make white people respect him.

3. Why does Goldie ask Ellie to excuse them?
(a) He wants to talk to Jack in private.
(b) The reporters are about to arrive.
(c) Jack needs to focus.
(d) He does not care for her.

4. Where are Jack, Ellie, Tick, and Goldie at the beginning of the scene?
(a) A police station.
(b) A diplomatic office in London, England.
(c) A courtroom.
(d) A train station.

5. The white people move aside and reveal what?
(a) Jack's trainers.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Jack's family.
(d) A small group of black people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the people demanding from District Attorney Cameron?

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

3. What does the next witness, Inspector Wainwright, detail?

4. Who does Clara see out the window?

5. Who is the second witness, who makes racist remarks as she complains about the parties, noise, and destructive behavior that took place in the apartment that Jack and Ellie rented from her?

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