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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jack greet Brady?
(a) As an enemy.
(b) As a friend.
(c) With a glare.
(d) He does not greet him.

2. Why does Ellie say that she will go along with anything?
(a) If it will make Jack more successful.
(b) She is in the mood for some excitement.
(c) If it will make her famous.
(d) If it will encourage others to forget about race.

3. How does the play begin?
(a) With an argument over where Brady will go to train.
(b) With a a meeting to discuss who Brady should fight next.
(c) With an argument over whether Brady, the current white heavyweight boxing champion, should fight an up-and-coming black boxer.
(d) With an argument over whether Brady should be the new Great White Hope.

4. What are Tick, his black trainer, and Ellie, his white girlfriend, watching Jack do?
(a) Shadow box.
(b) Have his hands taped.
(c) Yell at another boxer.
(d) Box with his trainer.

5. When Cap'n Dan and Fred discuss the terms of the fight, who is named the referee?
(a) Cap'n Dan.
(b) Dixon.
(c) Smitty.
(d) Fred.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the young man respond when Jack turns to him and asks what winning is going to do for him directly?

2. What is revealed about Jack and Ellie, regarding how they met?

3. Why does Cap'n Dan refuse to have the fight in any large cities?

4. What does a Deacon tell Jack?

5. How does the crowd react to Jack's arrival?

(see the answer key)

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