Native Son Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Native Son Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Thomas say Bigger will end up if he doesn't straighten out his life?
(a) Living on the street
(b) The gallows
(c) In jail
(d) In foster care

2. Where does Mary suggest she, Jan and Bigger go to eat?
(a) Ernie's Kitchen Shack
(b) Ernie's Chicken and Ribs
(c) Ernetsine's Chicken Shack
(d) Ms. Ernie's Rib Shack

3. What does Jan Erlone want to do for Bigger?
(a) Introduce him to a lawyer friend from the District Attorney's Office.
(b) Plan for Bigger's escape from jail.
(c) Lie and tell everyone he was the one responsible for Mary's death.
(d) Introduce him to a lawyer friend from the Labor Defense Office.

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

5. When Peggy finds Mary is not in her room what does she question Bigger about it, and what does he tell her?
(a) That the car is in the driveway because "the gentleman", Jan, was going to drive himself home the night before.
(b) That the "gentleman", Jan Erlone, was planning on spending the night and he was going to go with Mary to the train in the morning.
(c) That he has no idea what could have happened since Mary was fine when he left her.
(d) He confesses that Mary had been drunk the night before and that "the gentleman", Jan Erlone, insisted on driving her home, but dropped Bigger at his home first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Mary and Jan sit in the car?

2. What does Peggy decide must have happened to Mary?

3. What two words best describe Bigger in this opening part of the novel?

4. What happens when Britten backs Bigger against the wall and grabs his collar asking him about the pamphlets Jan Erlone gave him?

5. Where does Bigger have a job interview?

(see the answer key)

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