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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city do they agree to have the fight?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Los Angeles, California.
(c) Las Vegas, Nevada.
(d) Salt Lake City, Utah.

2. What does a group of rangers arrive and announce?
(a) No blacks are allowed in.
(b) No more seats are available in the arena.
(c) The fight has been cancelled.
(d) All weapons are to be confiscated.

3. How does Smitty respond when Goldie tells him to fetch some police?
(a) The police will ignore him.
(b) The police will support the crowd.
(c) The police will show up unbidden.
(d) Those are the police.

4. 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.

5. Who is the first of several witnesses to object to Jack's presence in England?
(a) Bratby.
(b) Coates
(c) Inspector Wainwright.
(d) Mrs. Kimball.

6. What does this man say about those black people who want success on white men's terms?
(a) They are smart to do that.
(b) White men's terms are the best.
(c) It is another form of slavery.
(d) Everyone should succeed on white men's terms.

7. What does Cameron say about the charges that could be brought against Jack?
(a) They are all relatively minor.
(b) They are rediculous.
(c) They are quite substantial.
(d) They are non-existent.

8. What is a barker shouting into a megaphone?
(a) A message about the Savior.
(b) An invitation for the crowd to enter Jack's home.
(c) An invitation to the people of Chicago to the cafe's opening.
(d) He is telling the people to go home.

9. What does Ellie sleepily imagine?
(a) Staying in bed all day and ignoring all of the reporters and journalists.
(b) Going on vacation on a deserted island with Jack.
(c) Staying out in the sun so long that her skin darkens, coloring her hair, becoming somebody new, moving in with Jack and nobody ever knowing she's actually white.
(d) Visiting her mother in New York and introducing her to Jack.

10. What does Jack do when Clara clings to him?
(a) He tries to get rid of her.
(b) He hugs her.
(c) He yells at her.
(d) He cringes.

11. How does a man in the crowd joke about Brady?
(a) His head being mounted on the wall inside.
(b) He will be eating out of a tube.
(c) He should wear a diaper.
(d) He is crying all the way home.

12. How do Cap'n Dan and Fred respond to Brady's confession?
(a) They agree with him.
(b) The taunt him.
(c) They laugh at him.
(d) They say he will be just fine.

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

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. What does Jack say will happen now that a match has been arranged for him?
(a) He knows some problems will occur.
(b) He will move to the United States.
(c) He is sure there will be no problems.
(d) He is sure he will make plenty of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the white people in the audience respond?

2. What does Cameron promise?

3. What does Jack sing softly?

4. Why does Goldie ask Ellie to excuse them?

5. As Dixon and the other men lead Jack and Ellie off, who appears?

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