View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was the victim wounded?
(a) In the face.
(b) In the head.
(c) In the chest.
(d) In the stomach.

3. According to one witness, where in the apartment building did the murder occur?
(a) Downstairs.
(b) Upstairs.
(c) On the landing.
(d) On the staircase.

4. Why is the murder weapon jammed into the wall?
(a) Because the juror who jams it there is angry.
(b) Because the table is cluttered.
(c) So everyone can see how unusual it is.
(d) Because the foreman does not want it handled.

5. How does the prosecution help to establish for the jury that the eyewitness was in a position to see the murder?
(a) They present other witnesses who say the same thing.
(b) The jury is taken to the home of the eyewitness to observe the conditions under which the murder was witnessed.
(c) They show a videotape illustrating how the murder could have been seen.
(d) They provide pictures of the apartment and the surroundings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Juror Ten point out about an eyewitness to the murder?

3. What sentence must the defendant face if proven guilty?

4. How does the dissenting juror feel about the job done by the lawyer for the defendant?

5. What kind of man is the dissenting juror?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 419 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample