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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bigger think when Mr. Dalton brags about giving ping pong tables to the South Side Boy's Club?
(a) That Mr. Dalton is a shallow and unfeeling.
(b) That Mr. Dalton is a very generous man and he regrets killing the man's daughter.
(c) That Mr. Dalton should give his toys to some other people.
(d) That Mr. Dalton just doesn't understand that what the people really need is social change, not things like ping pong tables.

2. What is the theme of the movie Bigger and Jack go to see?
(a) That white people will suffer in the depression
(b) That blacks can also be rich
(c) That white's are all communists
(d) The lifestyle of rich white people

3. What is wrong with Mary when Bigger takes her home?
(a) She wants to go right to Detroit.
(b) She doesn't want to go home.
(c) She is too drunk to walk.
(d) She is very sick.

4. The South Side Real Estate Company is what to Bigger?
(a) The company where Bigger hopes to one day work.
(b) The company to whom he pays rent for his family's rat-infested room.
(c) The South Side Real Estate Company is nothing to Bigger.
(d) The company Bigger dreams of one day owning.

5. While hidden Bigger reads a newspaper about the search for him. Why do the authorities still think Jan Erlone is the mastermind behind the entire murder and ransom?
(a) Because Jan Erlone is a communist and they hate communists.
(b) Because Jan Erlone refused to be released and has signed a confession.
(c) Because coming up with such a detailed plan would be beyond the Negro mind.
(d) Because Mr. Dalton really liked Bigger and wanted to help him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the white cat do while Bigger is being questioned by the police and reporters?

3. When Bigger nearly falls off the ledge, how does the writer describe what he would fall into if he had fallen?

4. What is Bigger's only regret about what he did to Bessie?

5. What does Bigger daydream about during the second movie?

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