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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Put into a private school.
(b) Sent him to college.
(c) Tried harder to teach him the right way to behave.
(d) Locked him in his room.

2. 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 Jack.
(d) Carrying placards that denounce the cafe.

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

4. When does Goldie say the fight is scheduled?
(a) Fourth of July.
(b) Memorial Day.
(c) Labor Day.
(d) Easter Sunday.

5. What do the marchers and black people begin to do?
(a) The marchers begin to become angry and the black people begin to laugh and taunt them.
(b) The marchers begin to preach and the black people begin to become angry.
(c) The marchers begin to laugh and the black people begin to become angry.
(d) The marchers become silent and the black people become nervous.

6. Why does Cap'n Dan refuse to have the fight in any large cities?
(a) Brady will get lost in the "big city."
(b) Brady needs to be a "big fish in a small pond."
(c) "Every nigger and his brother" will be there.
(d) I can't stand "city folk."

7. When Cap'n Dan and Fred discuss the terms of the fight, who is named the referee?
(a) Smitty.
(b) Fred.
(c) Cap'n Dan.
(d) Dixon.

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

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

10. About what does Smitty warn Goldie?
(a) Approaching fans.
(b) Bills that are due.
(c) Approaching protesters.
(d) Approaching police officers.

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

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

13. Why do the marchers leave?
(a) They see they are not getting the reaction they had planned..
(b) The police forcefully remove them.
(c) They become bored.
(d) They are afraid of Jack.

14. What does Ellie suddenly ask?
(a) Why people cannot leave them alone.
(b) Where Jack is.
(c) Why Jack likes her.
(d) What she is doing here.

15. About what are Goldie and Tick concerned?
(a) Jack being so optimistic.
(b) Jack calling Ellie his fiance.
(c) Jack being able to beat Brady.
(d) Jack's mood swings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ellie sleepily imagine?

2. How does the crowd react as Jack enters?

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

4. 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?

5. How does Smitty respond when Goldie tells him to fetch some police?

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