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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is building Bigger chose as the lookout point for the money drop described in the story.
(a) A large, white building.
(b) A white, vacant, quiet building.
(c) A tall, white and silent building.
(d) A vacant building in the slums.

2. Where does Bigger place the ransom note to be certain Mr. Dalton gets it?
(a) Under the back door.
(b) In the Dalton mail box.
(c) On Mr. Dalton's desk in his office.
(d) Under the front door.

3. What are Bigger's plans for the kidnapping farce?
(a) Have $10,000 put in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(b) Put $100,000 in a hat box that he will retrieve.
(c) But $100,000 in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(d) Put $1,000 in a hat box that Bessie will retrieve.

4. Where does Mary suggest she, Jan and Bigger go to eat?
(a) Ernie's Kitchen Shack
(b) Ernetsine's Chicken Shack
(c) Ms. Ernie's Rib Shack
(d) Ernie's Chicken and Ribs

5. When Bessie again declares she won't help Bigger with is ransom plan, what does bigger do to persuade her?
(a) He tells her it will be over between them if she doesn't help him.
(b) Reminds her she has already helped him steal enough to land her in jail. He also threatens to slap her.
(c) He holds a knife in a threatening way and warns her she had better help him.
(d) He threatens to beat her if she doesn't do what he wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jan Erlone think when he hears Bigger's lie about him?

2. Where does Bigger first go after leaving his home the morning after Mary's murder?

3. Where does Bigger Thomas and his family live?

4. When Mrs. Dalton speaks to Bigger in the kitchen, what surprises him about her?

5. What does Bigger tell his friend Gus he could do if he had the chance?

(see the answer key)

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