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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bigger when arrives at the Dalton home for his interview, what question plagues him as he stands outside the house?
(a) Whether he should go to the front door or the back.
(b) He's worried they will dislike him because he is black.
(c) Whether he should be dressed in nicer clothing.
(d) He's concerned he won't be able to do the job.

2. What does Bigger tell his friend Gus he could do if he had the chance?
(a) Earn a lot of money
(b) Rob a bank
(c) Fly a plane
(d) Drive a car

3. What does Bigger begin to wish for all blacks?
(a) That one day blacks will one day be equal to whites.
(b) That someone will bring them together to make their lives better.
(c) That they will one day make their own laws and rules.
(d) That they will become superior to the whites and treat them like they have been treated.

4. After winning the battle with "the beast" what does Bigger do?
(a) He sits down to eat dinner.
(b) He shows his mother his prize.
(c) He hides the remains.
(d) He frightens his sister, Vera, with the body.

5. How do the stories in the newspaper portray Bigger?
(a) As a "ferocious, depraved, primative beast"
(b) As a victim of circumstance
(c) As a martyr
(d) As a man unjustly accused

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bigger and Mary take Jan after their evening out?

2. On the streetcar on the way to Bessie's apartment what does Bigger want to shout?

3. How many bedrooms does the Thomas family share?

4. What does Max say is possible if the wealthy don't begin to understand what they are doing to the Negros in America?

5. On Bigger's first night at work, what does he, Mary and Jan do as they drive around the park?

(see the answer key)

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