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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following has the writer made very clear by the end of the play?
(a) The defendant is innocent.
(b) The jury system is perfect.
(c) Every defendant deserves to have his case thoroughly examined by the jury.
(d) A strong juror can lead others in any direction.

2. How do the jurors try to get an accurate estimate of the time of the events described by the old man?
(a) They ask for detailed information from the notes of the trial.
(b) They ask the foreman to read over the transcript.
(c) They act out the scene in the jury room and time the different events that the old man described.
(d) They ask each juror to explain exactly what he heard the old man say.

3. Who is left holding a weapon at the end of the play?
(a) Juror Five.
(b) The foreman.
(c) Juror Eight.
(d) Juror Three.

4. What source of information from the trial do the jurors use to help them estimate the time of the events surrounding the murder?
(a) The transcript of the old man's testimony.
(b) The old man's diary.
(c) They get the dimensions of the old man's room from a diagram of the apartment building.
(d) Photographs of the building.

5. Which of the following is the dominant theme of the play?
(a) Justice vs. Injustice.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Relationships in groups.
(d) Impact of ethnicity on violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the jurors depart for the jury room, who gives them final instructions?

2. What is the result of the vote taken by the jurors at the beginning of Act III?

3. Which juror directly asks the three jurors who most recently changed their votes to give their reasons for doing so?

4. Which of the jurors comment that they all had difficult lives, so a difficult life should not explain the defendant's history of violence?

5. What is the setting in which the reader first meets the twelve characters who give the play its name?

(see the answer key)

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