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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many letters did Bigger write after his sentencing?
(a) One to his mother
(b) None
(c) One to the Daltons
(d) Three a week

3. What is Vera doing at the YWCA?
(a) Taking sewing lessons
(b) Meeting her boyfriend
(c) Teaching a class
(d) Learning to swim

4. What happens when Bigger first awakens the morning after the murder?
(a) He tries to sneak out of the house unnoticed.
(b) He remembers everything he did the night before.
(c) He doesn't think about what happened the night before.
(d) He sees his brother, Buddy, staring at him suspiciously.

5. What are the three possible penalties Bigger faces?
(a) The death penalty, life in prison, or ten years in prison with 25 years on parole.
(b) Death by the electric chair, death by hanging or, death by lethal injection.
(c) The death penalty, life in prison or restitution.
(d) The death penalty, life in prison, or not less than 14 years in prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bigger say about church and religion?

2. What happens when Bigger climbs another ledge on the rooftop and beings crawling away?

3. What idea does Bigger get after Bessie mentions he is working near the site of the Leopold and Loeb case?

4. What is the title of the first part of the novel?

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

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