4. Why does Jack call Ellie honey?
(a) Honey just seems to fit.
(b) He keeps forgetting her name.
(c) He does not like her real name.
(d) He thinks it is a cute nickname.

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

6. What does Jack say he has not figured out?
(a) How to win in a way that will not get everybody angry at him.
(b) When the match will be.
(c) How to be a optimistic loser.
(d) His opponent's strengths and weaknesses.

7. 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 a a meeting to discuss who Brady should fight next.
(d) With an argument over whether Brady, the current white heavyweight boxing champion, should fight an up-and-coming black boxer.

8. On whom does Clara angrily talk about wanting to take revenge?
(a) Cameron.
(b) Jack.
(c) Mrs. Jefferson.
(d) Ellie.

9. Does Cameron suggests that Ellie should be ashamed of what she is doing?
(a) Yes.
(b) Maybe.
(c) A little.
(d) No.

10. How does Jack handle the intensity of this protest?
(a) With silence.
(b) With anger.
(c) With frustration.
(d) With humor.

11. What is revealed about Jack and Ellie, regarding how they met?
(a) They were in the same hotel in Sydney.
(b) They were on the same boat coming back from Australia.
(c) They met in a bar in Chicago.
(d) They met on a boat going to Australia.

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

13. What do Cameron's questions about how Ellie and Jack behaved on the boat suggest?
(a) He is trying to get her to say Jack got her drunk, drugged her, or gave her money or gifts.
(b) He is trying to make her regret meeting Jack.
(c) He is trying to get her to stand up for Jack.
(d) He is trying to get her to say Jack is a upstanding citizen.

14. Whose power does this man believe black people should accept?
(a) Their own.
(b) The white man's.
(c) Anyone but the white man.
(d) God's.

15. Why does Ellie agree to come talk to Cameron?
(a) She wants to show Jack that she is strong.
(b) She hopes she can get Jack arrested.
(c) She is tired of dating Jack.
(d) She wanted to head off any attempts to get at Jack through her.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. As Tick shouts directions and questions, Jack shouts back comments and answers. Why does Jack stop?

3. Why do the marchers leave?

4. About what does Mrs. Jefferson worry?

5. About what does Smitty warn Goldie?

(see the answer keys)

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