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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?
(a) She is afraid of Bigger.
(b) She goes to get her husband.
(c) She thinks her daugher is asleep.
(d) She smells liquor and thinks her daughter is passed out.

2. After Bigger leaves Bessie and returns to the Dalton's house what does Peggy tell him to do and why?
(a) To take the trunk to the attic because the Dalton's will start worrying about Mary if they see it.
(b) Go to the train station and find out what has happened to Mary's trunk.
(c) Go the the train station and pick up Mary's trunk because no one claimed it.
(d) She tells him to take the day off because everyone is too worried about Mary to need his services that day.

3. Who answers the door when Bigger finally knocks on the door of the Dalton house?
(a) The butler.
(b) Mr. Dalton
(c) The house-keeper.
(d) Mary Dalton

4. What happens when Bigger first awakens the morning after the murder?
(a) He tries to sneak out of the house unnoticed.
(b) He sees his brother, Buddy, staring at him suspiciously.
(c) He remembers everything he did the night before.
(d) He doesn't think about what happened the night before.

5. Where does Bigger have a job interview?
(a) At YMCA
(b) At the Dalton's
(c) At Blum's Delicatessin
(d) At the supermarket

Short Answer Questions

1. Bigger and Jack stay for the second movie. What is it about?

2. What happens when Bigger tries to dispose of Mary's body?

3. How does Bigger feel when he enters the Dalton home for the very first time?

4. Who does Bigger see when he, Mary and Jan enter the restaurant?

5. What is the job Mr. Dalton is hiring Bigger to do?

(see the answer key)

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