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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the stories in the newspaper portray Bigger?
(a) As a victim of circumstance
(b) As a martyr
(c) As a man unjustly accused
(d) As a "ferocious, depraved, primative beast"

2. What does Max want Bigger to do?
(a) Believe in himself
(b) Talk to his mother
(c) Cry so he'd feel better
(d) Try to escape

3. In Part Three what does State's Attorney Buckley ridicule Boris Max for?
(a) He says Boris Max should be representing decent people insted of "scum" like Bigger.
(b) For being a bad attorney.
(c) For having more guts than brains.
(d) For having gotten his law degree through the mail.

4. What kind of relationship does Bigger have with Gus?
(a) They are classmates
(b) They are best friends
(c) They are half brothers
(d) It is a volatile relationship

5. Bigger finally shakes down the ashes, but he doesn't remove them from the furnace, he just adds more coal. What happens then?
(a) The fire is smothered and the basement fills with smoke.
(b) The room fill with smoke so Bigger has to get a fan to blow it out the basement window.
(c) The fire starts to get hot again.
(d) The fire goes out and Bigger must restart it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when Jan Erlone comes to visit Bigger in his cell?

3. How many witnesses did State's Attorney Buckley say he was going to call to the stand?

4. Why did Bigger go to trial so quickly?

5. In book two when Bigger finally falls asleep after hearing Peggy and Mrs. Dalton talking about Mary, what does he recall in his dream?

(see the answer key)

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