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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Bigger feel about what his mother does when she sees the Daltons in his cell?
(a) He's indifferent.
(b) He loves her for it.
(c) He's embarrased.
(d) He hates her for it.
2. Where does Bigger have a job interview?
(a) At the supermarket
(b) At the Dalton's
(c) At YMCA
(d) At Blum's Delicatessin
3. What does Bigger realize after Mrs. Dalton leaves Mary's bedroom?
(a) That Mary wanted him to kiss her.
(b) That Mary had a heart attack.
(c) That he killed Mary by smothering her.
(d) That he is a very lucky young man.
4. How does the novel end?
(a) He finally cries.
(b) Bigger wears a "faint, wry, bitter smile" as he listens to the far door clang shut.
(c) He shouts that he is sorry as Max walks away.
(d) He laughs and lays down in his cot.
5. What does Bigger overhear Mrs. Dalton saying to Peggy when she learns her daughter is gone?
(a) She admits she isn't comfortable with Bigger living in the house and wonders if he frightened her daughter away.
(b) She expains that she does not trust the people Mary associates herself with, and suspects they have something to do with Mary not being home.
(c) She complains that she took her daughter shopping for expensive clothing that she didn't even pack for her trip.
(d) She expresses her dislike for the people Mary travels with, and is shocked she hadn't even packed her new clothing for the trip.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Bigger tell his friend Gus he could do if he had the chance?
2. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?
3. When Bigger returns to the basement to shake down the ashes, what stops him?
4. On the streetcar on the way to Bessie's apartment what does Bigger want to shout?
5. When Bessie again declares she won't help Bigger with is ransom plan, what does bigger do to persuade her?
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