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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far did Bigger go in school?
(a) Sixth grade
(b) Eighth grade
(c) Fifth grade
(d) High school

2. Why does Bessie finally agree to help Bigger with his kidnapping scam?
(a) He threatens to murder her family.
(b) He says he will give her half the money.
(c) She is greedy and wants in on the deal.
(d) He says he will leave her if she doesn't help him.

3. Why is Max upset during his final conversation with Bigger?
(a) Bigger told him he'd kill again if he could.
(b) Bigger was glad that he killed.
(c) Bigger broke down and cried.
(d) Bigger thinks what he killed for must have been good for him to have done it.

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

5. What are Bigger's plans for the kidnapping farce?
(a) But $100,000 in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(b) Put $100,000 in a hat box that he will retrieve.
(c) Have $10,000 put in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(d) Put $1,000 in a hat box that Bessie will retrieve.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?

2. What is Bigger's sentence?

3. How does Max have Bigger plead at his trial?

4. In Part Three what does State's Attorney Buckley ridicule Boris Max for?

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

(see the answer key)

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