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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act I.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What two types of prejudice are evident in the comments of some of the jurors during Act 1?
(a) Prejudice against the poor and prejudice against the uneducated.
(b) Prejudice against foreigners and class prejudice.
(c) Color prejudice and racial prejudice.
(d) Prejudice against some ethnic groups and prejudice against people from certain areas.
2. Why is it clear from the dissenting juror's action that anyone could have had a weapon similar to the murder weapon?
(a) He borrowed it from a policeman who said they confiscate them from schoolboys all the time.
(b) He purchased it for $2.00 from a shop near the defendant's house.
(c) He found it on the street.
(d) He purchased it for $10 from a hunting shop nearby.
3. How does the dissenting juror explain the defendant's record of violence?
(a) He says the defendant has been conditioned this way by living in the ghetto.
(b) He says the defendant was left by his mother as a child.
(c) He says the defendant has an abusive father who has beaten him since he was a young boy.
(d) He says the defendant has been wayward because of bad company.
4. What important information casts doubts on the eyewitness' story in the first discussion of the evidence?
(a) The eyewitness claims to have seen the murder through the windows of a passing elevated train.
(b) The eyewitness is old with impaired vision.
(c) The eyewitness has to walk a long way to the door after hearing the body fall.
(d) The eyewitness wears glasses.
5. Where does the old man who testifies for the prosecution live?
(a) Across the street.
(b) On the second floor of the apartment building where the murder occured.
(c) On the same floor where the murder occurred.
(d) On the ground floor.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why is the murder weapon jammed into the wall?
2. After eleven jurors vote "guilty" and one juror votes "not guilty", what process do the jurors decide on in order to resolve the matter?
3. How old was the defendant when he lost his mother?
4. Before the jurors depart for the jury room, who gives them final instructions?
5. What kind of man is the dissenting juror?
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