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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bigger feel committing murder has changed his life?
(a) It has given meaning to his life.
(b) He feels powerful and ready to kill again.
(c) He is afraid he will spend the rest of his life on the run.
(d) He feels it has opened the door to opportunity.

2. Who is the owner of the pool hall?
(a) Doc
(b) Mr. Dalton
(c) G.L.'s brother
(d) Jack's father

3. In Book Two Bigger is feeling very confident and powerful, except when he sleeps and dreams. What does he dream about after his first meeting with Britten.
(a) He is carrying a package that turns out to be his own severed, bloddy head wrapped in paper.
(b) A church bell that turns out to be a warning bell urging him to hide himself and his package.
(c) All are correct.
(d) He tries to run from the blood, the coal, and white faces.

4. How many people are searching for Bigger?
(a) Five thousand vigilantes.
(b) Eight thousand police and vigilantes.
(c) Eight thousand armed, angry, white men.
(d) Eight thousand police officers.

5. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?
(a) Bigger slips away from the men then jumps out of a second story window into the snow.
(b) He jumps out of a second story windown into the snow then runs to Bessie's apartment.
(c) He jumps out a window and hurts his knee, so he has to walk slowly to Bessie's apartment.
(d) Bigger sneaks out of the basement door and runs to Bessie's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bigger do with the pamphlets Jan gave him the night before?

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

3. On the streetcar on the way to Bessie's apartment what does Bigger want to shout?

4. What does Bigger give his friends when he sees them the morning after Mary's murder?

5. Who is Britten?

(see the answer key)

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