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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?
(a) A gunman
(b) A rabid cat
(c) Their landlord
(d) A rat

2. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?
(a) He was in there to take her luggage to the station for her trip to Detroit.
(b) He was going to make a point of telling everyone in the morning that Mary wanted him to get her luggage, then he'll tell everyone she's not in her room.
(c) He wasn't taking a chance, he wiped everything clean of his fingerprints.
(d) He was in there when he helped her into bed, but she was okay when he left her.

3. What is the job Mr. Dalton is hiring Bigger to do?
(a) butler
(b) handy-man
(c) window washer
(d) chauffeur

4. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?
(a) She goes to get her husband.
(b) She is afraid of Bigger.
(c) She thinks her daugher is asleep.
(d) She smells liquor and thinks her daughter is passed out.

5. When the young couple treats him as an equal how does if make Bigger feel?
(a) He likes them immediately.
(b) Like dumping them and picking up his friends.
(c) Like he should quit the new job.
(d) He feels uneasy and hates them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?

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

3. What is Vera doing at the YWCA?

4. What is the on-going plan Bigger and his friends discuss that morning?

5. When Peggy gives Bigger dinner, what other job does she tell Bigger he must do?

(see the answer key)

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