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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most significant method used by Juror Eight to influence other jurors?
(a) Concern for the defendant.
(b) Ability to listen.
(c) Concern for justice.
(d) Logical reasoning.

2. 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 not intelligent enough to understand the evidence.
(b) They suggest that he is on the side of law breakers.
(c) They say he is the only one and they will return a "hung jury" verdict.
(d) They suggest that he is inferior because he is from the ghetto.

3. What information does Juror Seven provide about the history of the defendant?
(a) He has been convicted of stealing cars.
(b) He has stolen a car, been convicted of mugging and stabbed someone in the arm.
(c) He has been to prison before.
(d) He has been charged with murder before.

4. How does the defendant account for the fact that after the murder he does not have the weapon he bought?
(a) He says he left it at his friend's house.
(b) He says it must have fallen through a hole in his coat pocket.
(c) He says it was stolen.
(d) He says he lost it at the football game.

5. What is the reaction to the vote taken at the end of Act 1?
(a) Juror Ten attacks Juror Eight.
(b) The foreman declares the vote null and void.
(c) Juror Three is outraged and accuses Juror Five of changing his vote because of Juror Eight..
(d) Everone is angry except Juror Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the verdict from the second vote among jurors prove?

2. As the jurors discuss "reasonable doubt", why does Juror Nine become more and more uneasy?

3. How does Juror Eight get the others to realize that the defendant might not have killed his father although he said "I'm gonna kill you"?

4. Which juror admits to having changed his vote?

5. Why does the dissenting juror challenge the fact that other jurors are willing to take the alleged eyewitness' word when they would not accept the defendant's word?

(see the answer key)

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