Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Bigger leaves Bessie and returns to the Dalton's house what does Peggy tell him to do and why?
(a) Go to the train station and find out what has happened to Mary's trunk.
(b) She tells him to take the day off because everyone is too worried about Mary to need his services that day.
(c) To take the trunk to the attic because the Dalton's will start worrying about Mary if they see it.
(d) Go the the train station and pick up Mary's trunk because no one claimed it.

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

3. After he returns to work at the Dalton house, what happens when Peggy asks Bigger to tend to the furnace because it has been running too hot?
(a) He tells Peggy the furnace is fine, but he will check it anyway.
(b) He fears she suspects something and plans on how he will kill her if she discovers anything about Mary.
(c) He tells Peggy he will check the furnace later.
(d) He hurries down the stairs to shake the ashes.

4. What happens when Britten backs Bigger against the wall and grabs his collar asking him about the pamphlets Jan Erlone gave him?
(a) Mr. Dalton tells Britten, Bigger probably knows nothing about them and doesn't even know Jan Erlone.
(b) Bigger stares coldly into the eyes of Britten until the man releases him.
(c) Mr. Dalton tells Britten that Bigger probably wouldn't even understand the brochures.
(d) Bigger wants to hit the private investigator, but controls the urge.

5. What is Vera doing at the YWCA?
(a) Meeting her boyfriend
(b) Taking sewing lessons
(c) Learning to swim
(d) Teaching a class

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book Two as Bigger rides the streetcar, what is his only regret?

2. When Bigger returns to the basement to shake down the ashes, what stops him?

3. Where does Bigger Thomas and his family live?

4. Where does Bigger say white people live?

5. How does Bigger compare his family to Mary Dalton?

(see the answer key)

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