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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cap'n Dan refuse to have the fight in any large cities?
(a) Brady will get lost in the "big city."
(b) "Every nigger and his brother" will be there.
(c) I can't stand "city folk."
(d) Brady needs to be a "big fish in a small pond."

2. Late at night in a hotel room in Wisconsin, what does Jack try to get Ellie to do?
(a) Go get him food.
(b) Leave him.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Go for a late night swim with him.

3. What does Ellie sleepily imagine?
(a) Going on vacation on a deserted island with Jack.
(b) Staying out in the sun so long that her skin darkens, coloring her hair, becoming somebody new, moving in with Jack and nobody ever knowing she's actually white.
(c) Visiting her mother in New York and introducing her to Jack.
(d) Staying in bed all day and ignoring all of the reporters and journalists.

4. What does a reporter call Brady?
(a) Our Hope.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) The New Hope.
(d) The White Hope.

5. Why does Ellie agree to come talk to Cameron?
(a) She wanted to head off any attempts to get at Jack through her.
(b) She wants to show Jack that she is strong.
(c) She is tired of dating Jack.
(d) She hopes she can get Jack arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ellie ask Jack if he feels all right?

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

3. About what does Mrs. Jefferson worry?

4. Where are Jack, Ellie, Tick, and Goldie at the beginning of the scene?

5. Who says that the black man did not fight "like a man" in a match in Australia?

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