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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the first part of the novel?
(a) Fear
(b) Lost Soul
(c) Anger
(d) Rage

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

3. After winning the battle with "the beast" what does Bigger do?
(a) He frightens his sister, Vera, with the body.
(b) He sits down to eat dinner.
(c) He shows his mother his prize.
(d) He hides the remains.

4. What happens when the first police officer comes through the trap door to the rooftop?
(a) Bigger knocks him unconscious.
(b) Bigger shootes him.
(c) Bigger throws snowballs at him.
(d) Bigger runs away.

5. The South Side Real Estate Company is what to Bigger?
(a) The company to whom he pays rent for his family's rat-infested room.
(b) The South Side Real Estate Company is nothing to Bigger.
(c) The company Bigger dreams of one day owning.
(d) The company where Bigger hopes to one day work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mr. Dalton refuse to have Jan Erlone picked up by the police for questioning?

2. As Bigger tells his fabricated story about the previous evening to Mr. Dalton and Britten, what is he feeling?

3. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?

4. What does Bigger decide to do with Mary's body next?

5. How much money does Bigger show Bessie to try to impress her?

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