1. The South Side Real Estate Company is what to Bigger?
(a) The South Side Real Estate Company is nothing to Bigger.
(b) The company where Bigger hopes to one day work.
(c) The company to whom he pays rent for his family's rat-infested room.
(d) The company Bigger dreams of one day owning.

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

3. 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 starts to get hot again.
(b) The room fill with smoke so Bigger has to get a fan to blow it out the basement window.
(c) The fire goes out and Bigger must restart it.
(d) The fire is smothered and the basement fills with smoke.

4. When Bigger nearly falls off the ledge, how does the writer describe what he would fall into if he had fallen?
(a) "The waiting arms of the police."
(b) "An ocean of cheers from the spectators below."
(c) "An ocean of boiling hate."
(d) "A boiling pot of hatred."

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