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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act III.
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 bus in which the jurors are being transported to court.
(b) The murder scene.
(c) The jury room in a New York court.
(d) The court room.
2. 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"?
(a) He says the defendant might just have been angry.
(b) He says the defendant might have been provoked by his father.
(c) He asks them to consider how many times they have said similar words with no intention to kill.
(d) He says that many people say things they don't really mean.
3. Where is the bed of the crucial eyewitness discussed in Act III?
(a) In an apartment across the street from the station.
(b) Next to the door below the murder scene.
(c) Next to the kitchen window near the murder scene.
(d) Next to an open window across the street from the murder scene.
4. How does the progress of the discussion in Act II affect the behavior of the group of jurors?
(a) The jurors begin to take the defendant more seriously.
(b) As a group, the jurors develop insights that they could not have individually.
(c) The jurors continue to hurry towards a conclusion.
(d) The jurors begin to listen to Juror Eight.
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?
(a) Because the eyewitness belongs to the same ethnic group.
(b) Because they assert that all people from the defendant's community are liars and the eyewitness is from the area.
(c) Because the eyewitness belongs to the same family as the victim.
(d) Because they assert that the eyewitness was unreliable.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the other jurors react when one of them reacts explosively after the discussion about the defendant's intelligence?
2. How old is the man who gives evidence about the events he heard from his room?
3. How does the prosecution help to establish for the jury that the eyewitness was in a position to see the murder?
4. Who is left holding a weapon at the end of the play?
5. What is the state of mind of most of jurors as they enter the jury room?
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