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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bigger do with the pamphlets Jan gave him the night before?
(a) He goes to his room in the Dalton house and carefully puts them in his drawer.
(b) He sits on the bed and reads them.
(c) He throws them in the trash.
(d) He burns them.

3. What happens when Bigger arrives at Bessie's apartment and he tries to kiss her?
(a) She isn't interested because he ignored her at the diner.
(b) She tells him if he doesn't marry her it means he is ashamed of her.
(c) She argues with him about not being home when she tried to visit him the night before.
(d) She tells him that since he now has a job he can marry her.

4. What did Buddy tell Bigger happened the night before?
(a) That Bigger's girlfriend, Bessie, came to see him and that she was angry he wasn't there.
(b) That he would keep quiet for a price.
(c) That their mother was happy he got the job.
(d) That Bigger's girlfriend, Bessie, came to see him the night before and talked about marriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Bigger threatens Gus, who prevents him from attacking the other man?

2. What goes through Bigger's mind when he hears the music from the church?

3. Bigger finally shakes down the ashes, but he doesn't remove them from the furnace, he just adds more coal. What happens then?

4. Where does Bigger have a job interview?

5. How many members are in the Thomas family?

(see the answer key)

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