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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does a Deacon tell Jack?
(a) They are all going to be praying for him and that he is fighting for all of them.
(b) Fighting is a sin.
(c) He should not fight.
(d) He must fight for himself and God.

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

4. What does Mrs. Jefferson promise Jack?
(a) She will visit him in prison both soon and often.
(b) She will bail him out.
(c) She will take care of Clara for him.
(d) She will pray for him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Ellie in Australia?

2. What does Jack say will happen now that a match has been arranged for him?

3. How does the crowd react as Jack enters?

4. What does the next witness, Inspector Wainwright, detail?

5. Knowing Jack is involved with a white girl is going to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place in this scene?

2. Why does Jack say he does not need to warm up?

3. How does Goldie respond when he sees Ellie?

4. Why do a group of rangers arrive?

5. Why does Jack call Ellie honey?

6. How does Jack respond when Smitty asks him if he is being so stubborn because he wants to keep the champion title a little longer?

7. Why does Ellie enter with Ragosy?

8. How does the reader know that Jack is worried about money?

9. What suggestion does Cap'n Dan give to convince Jack to take part in the fixed fight? How do the other men respond to this?

10. How does this scene begin?

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