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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Mary Dalton expected to go on the day after Bigger is hired by her father?
(a) To a union meeting
(b) To a communist rally
(c) University
(d) Detroit

2. As Bigger is leaving the Dalton home after Mary's death, what does he find near the Dalton's car?
(a) A bottle of rum
(b) Mary's expensive necklace
(c) Mary's purse
(d) The pamphlets Jan gave him

3. What doe Bigger and Jack think being "Red" is?
(a) It's American communists.
(b) It's to do with Native Americans.
(c) It's a violent race in Russia.
(d) That it is better to be "Red" than dead.

4. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?
(a) Birmingham
(b) Chicago
(c) Philadelphia
(d) New York City

5. What Bigger and his friends call the game they play?
(a) "Black" against "White"
(b) "White"
(c) Catch me if you can
(d) Kick the can

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bigger daydream about during the second movie?

3. What is the on-going plan Bigger and his friends discuss that morning?

4. What does Bigger decide to do with Mary's body next?

5. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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