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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first part of the novel?
(a) Lost Soul
(b) Anger
(c) Rage
(d) Fear

2. 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 be dressed in nicer clothing.
(b) Whether he should go to the front door or the back.
(c) He's concerned he won't be able to do the job.
(d) He's worried they will dislike him because he is black.

3. Who does Mary ask Bigger to pick up after they leave home his first night working for them?
(a) Her friend, Joan Erlone
(b) She doesn't ask him to pick up anyone.
(c) Her professor, Mr. Erlone
(d) Her boyfriend, Jan Erlone

4. Where does Bigger take the trunk with the body inside?
(a) Out to the car
(b) Into the garage
(c) Into the basement
(d) To a dumpster

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The story is set in what decade?

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

3. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?

4. As Bigger is leaving the Dalton home after Mary's death, what does he find near the Dalton's car?

5. What does Bigger do after he puts Mary to bed?

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