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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the State's Attorney Buckley get Bigger to do?
(a) Eat
(b) Sign a confession
(c) Pray for forgiveness
(d) Admit he is sorry

2. How does Bigger feel when he enters the Dalton home for the very first time?
(a) Lucky
(b) Indifferent
(c) Worried
(d) Uncomfortable

3. Where does Bigger and Mary take Jan after their evening out?
(a) To catch the train
(b) Home to her house
(c) To catch a bus
(d) To Mary's house

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

5. Who did Bigger's new cellmate ask to talk to?
(a) The Govenor
(b) The President
(c) He only babbled
(d) His attorney

Short Answer Questions

1. In Max's statement to the court in Part Three of the novel, how does he portray the 12 million Negros living in the United States?

2. What does Bigger tell his friend Gus he could do if he had the chance?

3. What does Bigger say the white people do to black people?

4. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?

5. What does Max say is possible if the wealthy don't begin to understand what they are doing to the Negros in America?

(see the answer key)

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