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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bigger and Jack stay for the second movie. What is it about?
(a) Naked native Africans dancing to drums.
(b) Black Americans
(c) Multi-cultural dances
(d) Native African's hunting in the jungle

2. What does Bigger call the army?
(a) A fool's army
(b) A white man's army
(c) A Jim Crow army
(d) A place to hide

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

4. Where does Bigger place the ransom note to be certain Mr. Dalton gets it?
(a) On Mr. Dalton's desk in his office.
(b) Under the back door.
(c) In the Dalton mail box.
(d) Under the front door.

5. How does Bigger feel about what his mother does when she sees the Daltons in his cell?
(a) He hates her for it.
(b) He loves her for it.
(c) He's indifferent.
(d) He's embarrased.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jan Erlone want to do for Bigger?

2. In what ways does Bigger act to give the impression he thinks Mary is asleep upstairs in her bedroom?

3. When Bigger nearly falls off the ledge, how does the writer describe what he would fall into if he had fallen?

4. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?

5. What is the first thing Bigger admitted to Max he would liked to have been?

(see the answer key)

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