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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jack sing softly?
(a) A verse of a blues song.
(b) A verse of Ellie's favorite song.
(c) A verse of a rap.
(d) A verse of a hymn.

3. 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.

4. Why does Cap'n Dan tell Brady the whole country is going to feel let down?
(a) If Brady continues to say he is afraid of this man.
(b) If Brady fights this man.
(c) If Brady ends his boxing career.
(d) If Brady continues to refuse to fight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coates do regarding Sir William's attempts to keep order?

2. In what city do they agree to have the fight?

3. How does Jack react when Ellie tells him to stop dancing and singing?

4. Late at night in a hotel room in Wisconsin, what does Jack try to get Ellie to do?

5. What does Goldie say about the crowd at the fight?

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