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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scenes 4 and 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 a a meeting to discuss who Brady should fight next.
(c) With an argument over where Brady will go to train.
(d) With an argument over whether Brady, the current white heavyweight boxing champion, should fight an up-and-coming black boxer.

2. As Dixon and the other men lead Jack and Ellie off, who appears?
(a) A bizarrely dressed black man named Scott.
(b) A bizarrely dressed white man named Scipio.
(c) A bizarrely dressed white man named Scott.
(d) A bizarrely dressed black man named Scipio.

3. Does Brady accept the idea?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Not at first.
(d) Yes, at first.

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

5. Of what do the Germans go out in search?
(a) A meal for Jack.
(b) Money for Jack.
(c) A pen for Jack to sign his autograph.
(d) A suitable memento for Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does this scene takes place?

2. What does Dixon say about the black population at large?

3. She recalls how hard it was to teach him the right way to behave, how he was always determined to do things his own way, and how she tried to punish him physically. What does she say she should have done to keep Jack out of a situation such as this?

4. Whose power does this man believe black people should accept?

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

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