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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people are searching for Bigger?
(a) Five thousand vigilantes.
(b) Eight thousand police officers.
(c) Eight thousand armed, angry, white men.
(d) Eight thousand police and vigilantes.

2. In Book Two as Bigger rides the streetcar, what is his only regret?
(a) That he had to work.
(b) That he ever got mixed up with the Dalton's in the first place.
(c) That he hadn't planned the murder so he could have gotten more money and felt more successful.
(d) That Mary's body didn't fit in the furnace. He hated all the blood when he cut off her head.

3. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?
(a) Birmingham
(b) New York City
(c) Philadelphia
(d) Chicago

4. What does Bigger do after the body is finally disposed of?
(a) He takes the pamphlets Jan gave him and plants them in Mary's room.
(b) He takes Mary's necklace to a pawn shop then goes home with the money.
(c) He steals money from Mary's purse then goes home to sleep.
(d) He finishes the bottle of rum then goes home to sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The South Side Real Estate Company is what to Bigger?

2. What does Peggy decide must have happened to Mary?

3. What keeps stopping Bigger from shaking down the ashes in the furnace?

4. What are Bigger's plans for the kidnapping farce?

5. When Bigger when arrives at the Dalton home for his interview, what question plagues him as he stands outside the house?

(see the answer key)

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