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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bigger sign the ransom note he has written to Mr. Dalton?
(a) "J. Erlone", with a drawing of a noose
(b) "Better Red than Dead" in red ink
(c) "Red", with a drawing of a hammer and sickle
(d) "Red", with a drawing of a noose

2. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?
(a) Bigger sneaks out of the basement door and runs to Bessie's apartment.
(b) He jumps out of a second story windown into the snow then runs to Bessie's apartment.
(c) Bigger slips away from the men then jumps out of a second story window into the snow.
(d) He jumps out a window and hurts his knee, so he has to walk slowly to Bessie's apartment.

3. What does Bigger do after he puts Mary to bed?
(a) He puts her into her nightgown
(b) He kisses her
(c) He leaves her alone
(d) He covers her

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bigger have a job interview?

2. Where does Bigger make his last stand?

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

4. What does Mr. Dalton's company own?

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

(see the answer key)

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