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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps stopping Bigger from shaking down the ashes in the furnace?
(a) He wants to make sure Mary's body is completely burned.
(b) He doesn't know the ashes need to be removed.
(c) Fear and dread
(d) He is afraid of burning himself.

2. When Bigger when arrives at the Dalton home for his interview, what question plagues him as he stands outside the house?
(a) He's worried they will dislike him because he is black.
(b) Whether he should be dressed in nicer clothing.
(c) He's concerned he won't be able to do the job.
(d) Whether he should go to the front door or the back.

3. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?
(a) She thinks her daugher is asleep.
(b) She is afraid of Bigger.
(c) She smells liquor and thinks her daughter is passed out.
(d) She goes to get her husband.

4. What happens when Bigger climbs another ledge on the rooftop and beings crawling away?
(a) He buries himself in snow so they don't see him.
(b) He is spotted.
(c) He hides behind a chimney.
(d) He gets away.

5. What does Bigger do to Bessie after they go to the old building to hide?
(a) He sleeps then awakens realizing he must kill Bessie.
(b) He smashes her head with a brick then runs away.
(c) He rapes her then cuts off her head like he did Mary's and throws her body down an air shaft.
(d) He rapes her then after she falls alseep kills her with a brick then throws her body down an air shaft.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bigger nearly falls off the ledge, how does the writer describe what he would fall into if he had fallen?

2. What happens after Jan Erlone sees Bigger on the street and offers to help him, then invites him out for coffee to talk about the situation?

3. What things does Mrs. Dalton question Bigger about when she comes to his room?

4. What is wrong with Mary when Bigger takes her home?

5. How is building Bigger chose as the lookout point for the money drop described in the story.

(see the answer key)

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