Act II

 

 

1. What causes the conflict between Jurors Three and Five at the opening of this act?

 

2. Why had Nine changed her vote? Who is Nine?

 

3. What is the point Eight makes about a passing elevated train?

 

4. Nine thinks the old man might have said what he said in order to get attention,

            not because he actually heard anything. What led him to his conclusion?

 

5. When Three and Nine are arguing over whether the old witness said that it took him     

            fifteen or twenty seconds to get to the door, what does Three say?

 

6. Why does Three immediately look sheepish after he says this?

 

7. What is the point of all the measuring that Eight does?

 

8. Why is it so important for Three that the boy be convicted?

 

9. On what dramatic note does this act end? What makes the dramatic climax so    significant?