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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the knife discussion, how do the other jurors pressure the dissenting juror to make him change his vote?
(a) They suggest that he is on the side of law breakers.
(b) They suggest that he is not intelligent enough to understand the evidence.
(c) They suggest that he is inferior because he is from the ghetto.
(d) They say he is the only one and they will return a "hung jury" verdict.

2. What is the setting in which the reader first meets the twelve characters who give the play its name?
(a) The murder scene.
(b) The court room.
(c) The jury room in a New York court.
(d) The bus in which the jurors are being transported to court.

3. What does the verdict from the second vote among jurors prove?
(a) That the arguments presented by the dissenting juror had some effect.
(b) That the dissenting juror is right in his "not guilty" verdict.
(c) That the foreman does a good job of managing the ballot.
(d) That the evidence is clearer after the discussion.

4. Before the jurors depart for the jury room, who gives them final instructions?
(a) The foreman.
(b) The judge.
(c) The prosecution.
(d) The defense.

5. To what age group does the defendant belong?
(a) He is a teenager.
(b) He is in his thirties.
(c) He is in his early twenties.
(d) He is middle-aged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of man is the dissenting juror?

2. What important information casts doubts on the eyewitness' story in the first discussion of the evidence?

3. Why is the murder weapon jammed into the wall?

4. Which juror rebukes Juror Ten for his racist comment?

5. According to the defendant, why did he buy the alleged murder weapon?

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