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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are searching for Bigger?
(a) Eight thousand armed, angry, white men.
(b) Five thousand vigilantes.
(c) Eight thousand police and vigilantes.
(d) Eight thousand police officers.

2. What happens when the first police officer comes through the trap door to the rooftop?
(a) Bigger knocks him unconscious.
(b) Bigger shootes him.
(c) Bigger throws snowballs at him.
(d) Bigger runs away.

3. Where does Bigger have a job interview?
(a) At YMCA
(b) At Blum's Delicatessin
(c) At the Dalton's
(d) At the supermarket

4. What does State's Attorney Buckley say about Max in his statements to the court?
(a) That Max is a good lawyer, but wrong in this case.
(b) That he is a no good "Red".
(c) That Max has a deluded and diseased mind.
(d) That Max doesn't even have a real law degree.

5. What goes through Bigger's mind when he hears the music from the church?
(a) He hates the music and can't wait to find another apartment.
(b) He half wishes he was a believer like his mother, but doesn't want to give up his sense of self.
(c) He hums along, but feeling to peace he gets angry.
(d) He wishes he could be with his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of the movie Bigger and Jack go to see?

2. After they leave the movie and go to the pool hall, what does Bigger do?

3. Who answers the door when Bigger finally knocks on the door of the Dalton house?

4. Tell whom the lone witness to Bigger's crime is?

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

(see the answer key)

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