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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene Two .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the prisoners doing on the Island at the start of Scene One?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Emptying the ocean with buckets.
(d) Digging sand.

2. Where does John get injured after being beat up in Scene One?
(a) His ankle.
(b) His eye.
(c) His arm.
(d) His hand.

3. Who does John pretend to call in their cell at night at the end of Scene One?
(a) Winston’s wife.
(b) Scott.
(c) John’s wife.
(d) Hodoshe.

4. When John and Winston first met, he had just returned from his trial, which was where?
(a) Rooihel.
(b) St. George’s Strand.
(c) Robben Island.
(d) Cradock.

5. How does John react when he sees Winston dressed up?
(a) He cries.
(b) He bows respectfully.
(c) He becomes angry.
(d) He laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Winston alert the prisoners of John’s upcoming release?

2. Who is the old man, who started singing, which John remembers as being with them the day they met?

3. How does Winston react to John’s news in Scene Two?

4. What song did the old man sing as the van drove away the day John and Winston met?

5. What does John recall Winston said as he jumped off the jetty at Robben Island?

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