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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act Two: Scenes 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does Fortune take just before Christian and Mama take up weapons?
(a) He shouts.
(b) He flips a table.
(c) He pulls a knife.
(d) He pulls a gun.

2. Josephine angrily insists in Scene 5 of Act One that her father had been what?
(a) A slave.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A king.
(d) A chief.

3. Mama enters and says that she needs how many girls to get up and serve the miners?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. Christian reports that the dead man had been dead for how long before his body was found?
(a) A fortnight.
(b) A day.
(c) A month.
(d) A week.

5. Who leads the exhausted Josephine to the back of the bar after her frenzied dance?
(a) Salima.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Mr. Harari.
(d) Fortune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Mr. Harari, the diamond merchant who frequents Mama's place?

2. Mama tells Christian in Scene 6 of Act One, "I have" how many "girls to feed and a business to run" (56)?

3. At what time of day does Scene 3 of Act Two begin?

4. How many times does Mama repeat the lyric, "The door never closes at Mama's place" (64) at the end of Scene 1 of Act Two?

5. What action does Sophie take as she tells Salima that Fortune will not leave until he sees her?

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