Twelve Angry Men - Act 3

What is the problem with declaring them a “hung jury”?

• They would have to hang the boy.
• They would have to hand one of the jurors.
• They would send the boy to a prison in Alaska because of the law.
• The boy would need another trial.

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 At the end of the play, what happens between jurors eight and three?

• Three punches eight in the face.
• Eight slaps three in the face.
• Three directs a knife at eight.
• Eight directs a knife at three.

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What is wrong about the stabbing and the wound found on the father?

• There was no wound and they actually couldn't prove that the father had been murdered.
• The wound shows a downward stabbing, but the boy is an experienced knife fighter, so he would have stabbed his father with an upward motion.
• The boy dropped the knife on his father. Therefore the wound doesn't match.
• The boy stabbed himself after he killed his father. 

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What troubles the jurors as they examine the old woman's testimony?

• They discover that she had an affair with the boy's father.
• She wouldn't have put on her glasses when waking up in the middle of the night.
• The woman worked for the CIA, so she was biased in court.
• The woman couldn't hear anything because of the train.

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How do most jurors react to Juror 10's racist rant about people from the slum?

• They accuse him of being racist.
• They get up and turn their back to him.
• They slap his face.
• They ask him to leave

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Who is the last juror to vote guilty? What changes his mind?

• Juror 7. He wants to go home.
• Juror 3. Everybody is now against him.
• Juror 2. His wife had an accident and he decides to leave quickly.
• Juror 3. Juror 8 convinced him.

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Why does Juror 8 tell Juror 3 "He's not your boy." about the kid in the trial?

• Juror 3 had a very bad relationship with his own son.
• Juror 3 thinks that the kid on trial is his long-lost son.
• Juror 3 wishes to have a son, just like the kid on trial.
• Juror 3 is the father of the kid on trial.

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