Justice
John Galsworthy
Act - I
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Important One liner Notes & Mcq questions
➢ Justice was first published in 1910 .
➢ Justice is Problem play or Social problem play or social tragedy
➢ In Justice, Galsworthy upholds the problem of rehabilitation of convicts, justice, and existing
laws of divorce
➢ The three plays of Galsworthy ‘Justice’, ‘Strife’ and ‘Loyalties’ together form the trilogy of social
plays.
➢ There are 4 Acts in this play.
➢ Act I starts in the managing clerk’s room at the office of James How and Walter How on a July
morning .
➢ James How and his son Walter How are Solicitors .
➢ The office room was old-fashioned and furnished.
➢ The wooden furniture were made of costly mahogany wood.
➢ In the room has 3 doors.
➢ Cokeson ( 60 ) : He is a man of sixty, wearing spectacles; rather short, with a bald head, and an
honest, pug-dog face. He is dressed in a well-worn black frock-coat and pepper-and-salt trousers.
➢ Sweedle ( 16 ) : He is 16 years old boy. He has spiky hair.
➢ Ruth Honeywill ( 26 ) : She is a tall woman, 26 years old, unpretentiously dressed, with black
hair and eyes, an ivory -white, clear cut face. William Honeywill was her husband. He was a
drunkard. She has two children.
➢ William Falder ( 23 ) : He is 23 years old. He is a pale, good -looking young man, with quick,
rather scared eyes. He loved Ruth Honeywill.
➢ Falder and Ruth Honeywill wanted to set sail for South America. So Falder told her to meet him at
11:45 p.m. at the booking office. Falder gave 7 pounds to Ruth. Falder forged a cheque of 9
pounds to 90 pounds ( Nine > Ninety ).
➢ James How : He is a short man , with white side-whiskers (hair on the cheeks) , plentiful grey
hair, shrewd eyes and he wore a gold prince-nez .
➢ Walter How ( 35 ) : He is 35 years old, a refined – looking man( fashionable man with cultural
outlook )
➢ Wister : He is a detective. He is a square, medium-sized man, clean- shaved, in a serviceable blue
serge suit and strong boots. He is a detective from Scotland Yard ( police headquarters in London)
➢ Cowley : a cashier of the bank .
➢ Davis and Morris are another clerk in the office of James How and Walter How .
➢ The name of the ship was City of Rangoon on which Davis sailed for Australia .
➢ 7th July Walter How went down to look over the Trenton Estate— last Friday week and came
back on Tuesday.
➢ Davis sailed for Austalia on Monday
➢ Cokeson has been working in the office of James How and Walter How for 29 years .
➢ Walter How gave the cheque to Cokeson, Cokeson gave the cheque to Davis, and Davis gave the
cheque to Falder.
* Walter > Cokeson > Davis > Falder.
➢ Walter gave the cheque to Cokeson at one o’clock ( 1 pm. )
➢ Falder cashed the cheque last Friday at 1:15 pm.
➢ ‘ the quality of mercy is not strained ’ is taken from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Justice. Act - I Mcq Questions and Answers
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1. As a literary genre, Justice is
a) Problem play
b) Social tragedy
c) Romantic tragedy
d) Both a & b. Answer: d
2. Justice was first published in
a) 1912 c) 1917
b) 1910 d) 1909. Answer: b
3. Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in
a) 1927 c) 1932
b) 1930 d) 1937. Answer: c
4. Besides Justice, the other two plays that make up Galsworthy’s social trilogy are
a) Loyalties and Morality
b) Strife and Morality
c) Strife and Loyalties
d) Stride and Reunion. Answer: c
5. In Justice, Galsworthy upholds the problem of
a) Rehabilitation of convicts
b) Justice
c) Existing laws of divorce
d) All of these. Answer: d
6. Justice contains
a) Political criticism
b) Educational criticism
c) Social criticism
d) Economic criticism. Answer: c
7. The title of the play Justice has a / an
a) symbolic meaning
b) literal meaning
c) ironical tone
d) none of the above. Answer: b
8. The total number of Acts this play is
a) Four c) Five
b) Three d) Three Acts with three scenes. Answer: a
9. The play opens at
a) The managing clerk’s room at the offices of James and Walter How
b) the solicitors’ room
c) The managing clerk’s office
d) The street of London. Answer: a
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10. When does Act I of Justice take place ?
a) On a July morning
b) On an August evening
c) On a June morning
d) On a June afternoon. Answer: a
11. The office room of James and Walter How is old fashioned, furnished with
a) Teak c) Deodar
b) Mahogany d) Pine. Answer: b
12. The number of the doors the room has
a) Two c) four
b) three d) five. Answer: b
13. James How and his son Walter How are
a) Solicitors c) Managers
b) Operators d) Supervisors. Answer: a
14. Who is Cokeson ?
a) The office boss
b) The bearer in the office of Walter How
c) Falder’s junior clerk in the office of James and Walter How
d) The managing clerk at office of James and Walter How. Answer: d
15. How old is Cokeson ?
a) 65 years c) 59 years
b) 60 years d) 62 years. Answer: b
16. In Act I of Justice, Cokeson is dressed in
a) Yellow coat and black tie
b) Black frock-coat and pepper and salt trousers
c) Black trousers and bow tie of the same colour
d) Suit and hat. Answer: b
17. Cokeson is
a) Bald headed c) Disciplined
b) Bespectacled d) All of these Answer: d
18. How long has Cokeson been working in the office of James and Walter How ?
a) For 27 years c) For 30 years
b) For 29 years d) For 28 years. Answer: b
19. The name of the office boy in the office of Table James and Walter How is
a) Wister c) Sweedle
b) Cowley d) Falder. Answer: c
20. How old is Sweedle ?
a) 14 years c) 13 years
b) 16 years d) 15 years. Answer: b
21. Who has spiky hair in Justice ?
a) Walter How c) James How
b) Cokeson d) Sweedle. Answer: d
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22. How old is Ruth ?
a) 22 years c) 27 years
b) 25 years d) 26 years. Answer: d
23. Ruth is
a) A woman with black hair and eyes, and fair face
b) A short woman, with black eyes, and an ivory-white face
c) A medium height woman, with black hair and clear-cut face
d) A tall woman, with black hair and eyes and an ivory-white, clear-cut face
Answer: d
24. Falder is a
a) Junior clerk at the office of James and Walter How
b) Senior clerk at the office of James and Walter How
c) Office boy at the office of James and Walter
d) Cashier at the office of James and Walter How. Answer: a
25. Falder was
a) 21 years old c) 24 years old
b) 23 years old d) 26 years old. Answer: b
26. How old is Walter How ?
a) 33 years c) 35 years
b) 34 years d) 30 years. Answer: c
27. Wister is by profession
a) an investigating officer c) a detective
b) an investigator d) a cashier of the bank Answer: c
28. “It’s all against the rules.” According to Cokeson, against the rules is
a) Meeting with any office personnel on personal matters
b) Forging a cheque
c) Loving a woman who has a husband
d) Asking him for help. Answer: a
29. “It’s a matter of life and death.” – Who this and to whom ?
a) Falder to James How
b) Ruth to Falder
c) Falder to Cokeson
d) Ruth to Cokeson. Answer: d
30. “Ruth: It’s a matter of life and death” Here it refers to
a) Her life
b) Her relationship with Falder
c) Her closeness with him
d) Her business with Falder is a matter of vital urgency, on which depends whether she should
live or die
Answer: d
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31. “This isn’t right, Falder .” Here this refers to
a) entering the office
b) their (Falder and Ruth’s) clinging together passionately
c) their seeing each other
d) Their sight. Answer: b
32. “It shan’t occur again.” Here It refers to
a) Their clinging together passionately
b) Their closeness
c) Their illicit relation
d) Their frivolities of love. Answer: a
33. In Act I of Justice when and where does Falder want to meet Ruth ?
a) At 11:45 p.m. at the booking office
b) At 10:45 am. at the bank
c) At 10:30 am. at the port
d) At 10:30 p.m. at his home. Answer: a
34. What amount of money did Falder give to Ruth ?
a) 700 pounds c) 70 pounds
b) 17 pounds d) 7 pounds. Answer: d
35. Falder forged a cheque of nine pounds to
a) 900 pounds c) 99 pounds
b) 90 pounds d) 89 pounds. Answer: b
36. Falder committed the forgery of the cheque in order to
a) Help a poor family
b) Save Ruth, his love from the inhuman clutches of her husband
c) Save his own family from poverty
d) Collect money for his own tour to Europe. Answer: b
37. When was the forged cheque cashed ?
a) On 8th July at 1.15 p.m. (Saturday)
b) On 9th July at 1.15 p.m. (Sunday)
c) On 7th July at 1.15 p.m. (Friday)
d) On 5th July at 1.15 p.m. (Wednesday). Answer: c
38. What is Guildhall as mentioned in Act I of Justice ?
a) A shopping mall in Scotland
b) A market in Ireland
c) A museum in London
d) A merchant office in Europe Answer: c
39. Where do Ruth and Falder want to set sail for ?
a) Australia c) Spain
b) South America d) Norway. Answer: b
40. When did Walter How go to look over the Trenton Estate ?
a) On 8th July (Saturday)
b) On 9th July (Sunday)
c) On 7th July (Friday)
d) On 5th July (Wednesday) Answer: c
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41. On which day did Davis sail for Australia ?
a) On Saturday c) On Monday
b) On Tuesday d) On Sunday. Answer: c
42. What was the name of the ship on which Davis sailed for Australia ?
a) City of Rangoon
b) Ocean Mower
c) Royal Sea Conqueror
d) Queen Elizabeth. Answer: a
43. “This lease of Boulter’s” refers to
a) lease of some land or building by Boulter, client of the firm
b) Boulter himself, the owner of the lease
c) the lease distributed by Boulter himself
d) the lease made by Boulter. Answer: a
44. The firm’s balance was over
a) 401 pounds c) 465 pounds
b) 400 pounds d) 467 pounds. Answer: b
45. ‘This is a very clever bit of work’- ‘ this ’ refers to
a) The amount of cheque being altered for 9 pounds to 90 pounds
b) Encashing the cheque
c) Altering the number. Answer: a
46. Here ‘ a nasty business ’ refers to
a) the misdeed of altering the cheque
b) Davis’s going to Rangoon
c) Falder’s embracing Ruth
d) Ruth’s elopement. Answer: a
47. “It unsettles you ” - Here it refers to
a) the entrance of the woman Ruth
b) the crime of altering or forging the cheque
c) Ruth’s elopement
d) Ruth’s efforts to elope with Falder.
[ Here the term unsettle means disturb. ]. Answer: b
48. The cheque was handed to Cokeson by Mr. Walter at
a) two o’clock c) one o’clock
b) Four o’clock d) ten o’clock
[ The cheque was cashed at 1:15 pm . Falder altered both the cheque and the counterfoil.]
Answer: c
49. ‘It was just a minute of madness.’-Here it refers to
a) Falder’s changing the cheque for nine pounds to ninety pounds
b) Falder’s planning to alter the cheque
c) Falder’s achieving success in forging the cheque
d) Falder’s misdeed. Answer: a
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50. “Too neat a piece of swindling altogether” means
a) The forgery of the cheque was a planned work
b) the misdeed of altering the cheque was so deliberate and well-planned that it cannot be
Falder’s first offence
c) the misdeed deserves praise inversely
d) None of these
[ This is said by James How ]. Answer: b
51. “Life’s a long temptation.” Means
a) life means temptation
b) temptation is another name for life
c) this world is a hard-trying place where one meets temptation after temptation
d) it is tempted by life.
Answer: c
52. Cokeson : “ I’m speaking of the flesh and devil ” Here the flesh suggests
a) Meat
b) sensual passions for women
c) fleshly fibres
d) human body. Answer:. b
53. The phrase ‘ a real bad egg ’ means
a) a swollen egg
b) a rotten egg
c) A thorough scoundrel
d) Thief
[ Here it refers to Falder. ]. Answer: c
54. The phrase ‘keep ‘em out of harm’s way’ means
a) Keep aloof from something evil; protect
b) Court danger
c) Destroy himself
d) Embrace harm. Answer: a
55. In “They’ve got a blind spot”, blind spot means
a) Vicious trait in character, a dark moral weakness
b) The spot having no eyes of its own
c) The spot having no eyesight
d) The spot which has no eye at all. Answer: a
56. The term sine qua non (Latin) means here
a) since the date of forgery
b) indispensable qualification
c) part and parcel
d) Inseparable part. Answer: b
57. Literally the term sine qua non (Latin) means
a) Without what not c) miserable condition
b) Indispensable part. d) Costly part. Answer: a
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58. “One must think of society.” is said by
a) Walter How c) James how
b) Cokeson d) Falder. Answer: c
59. The extenuating circumstances mean
a) Lessening or mitigating circumstances
b) Thin circumstances
c) Diminishing conditions
d) prevailing circumstances. Answer: a
60. Here the extenuating circumstances mean
a) tight circumstances
b) the falling conditions
c) Heightening circumstances
d) the nature of his (Falder) temptation; degrading temptation
Answer: d.
61. Here the cheque is likened to
a) A liver c) A potato
b) Lungs d) A mango
Answer: a
62. The expression ‘the quality of mercy is not strained’ is taken from
a) Shakespeare’s ‘ The Merchant of Venice ’
b) Othello
c) As You Like It
d) Macbeth. Answer: a
63. The speech made above was actually said by
a) Portia c) Falder
b) James How d) Walter How.
[ Walter How speaks this speech ] Answer: a
64. Cowley is
a) Cashier c) A helper
b) Servant d) Protector. Answer: a
65. The cashier is described in the play as
a) Sedentary dragon c) magnificent ass
b) The evil dragon d) Unfaithful man. Answer: a
