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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Book Three titled?
(a) Forever
(b) Fate
(c) Justice
(d) Finality

3. What is Bigger afraid to do?
(a) Cry
(b) Hope
(c) Pray
(d) Love

4. What is the theme of the movie Bigger and Jack go to see?
(a) That blacks can also be rich
(b) That white's are all communists
(c) That white people will suffer in the depression
(d) The lifestyle of rich white people

5. What does Bigger give his friends when he sees them the morning after Mary's murder?
(a) A cigarette and a roll of dollars
(b) Candy and gum
(c) A dollar and a pack of cigarettes
(d) Money and cigars

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bigger keep throwing out of his cell?

3. What is the job Mr. Dalton is hiring Bigger to do?

4. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?

5. What happens when Bigger climbs another ledge on the rooftop and beings crawling away?

(see the answer key)

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