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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The story is set in what decade?
(a) 1950's
(b) 1920's
(c) 1940's
(d) 1930's

2. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?
(a) She thinks her daugher is asleep.
(b) She goes to get her husband.
(c) She is afraid of Bigger.
(d) She smells liquor and thinks her daughter is passed out.

3. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?
(a) He was in there to take her luggage to the station for her trip to Detroit.
(b) He was in there when he helped her into bed, but she was okay when he left her.
(c) He was going to make a point of telling everyone in the morning that Mary wanted him to get her luggage, then he'll tell everyone she's not in her room.
(d) He wasn't taking a chance, he wiped everything clean of his fingerprints.

4. After meeting Mrs. Dalton, what two things does Bigger note about her?
(a) She is afraid to speak up to her husband and seems afraid of him.
(b) She is blind and much younger than her husband.
(c) She is an attractive woman with a good education.
(d) She is blind and uses words he doesn't understand.

5. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?
(a) A rat
(b) A gunman
(c) Their landlord
(d) A rabid cat

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Bigger and his friends call the game they play?

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

4. Where does Mrs. Thomas say Bigger will end up if he doesn't straighten out his life?

5. What does Bigger do to silence Mary in her room?

(see the answer key)

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