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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bigger think about the disbelief he reads on the faces of his friends when they visit him in jail?
(a) That they really were dumb not to join him in robbing the dellicatessin.
(b) They should be pleased that he has taken the responsibility for being black from their shoulders.
(c) He dislikes seeing they still don't see what he is capable of doing.
(d) That they should know what a hot head is is.

2. Who did Bigger open up to about his feelings?
(a) Max
(b) Jan
(c) His mother
(d) State's Attorney Buckley

3. What does Bigger think when Mr. Dalton brags about giving ping pong tables to the South Side Boy's Club?
(a) That Mr. Dalton should give his toys to some other people.
(b) That Mr. Dalton is a shallow and unfeeling.
(c) That Mr. Dalton is a very generous man and he regrets killing the man's daughter.
(d) That Mr. Dalton just doesn't understand that what the people really need is social change, not things like ping pong tables.

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

5. What kind of relationship does Bigger have with Gus?
(a) They are classmates
(b) They are half brothers
(c) They are best friends
(d) It is a volatile relationship

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. Where does Mrs. Thomas say Bigger will end up if he doesn't straighten out his life?

3. What is Bigger's only regret about what he did to Bessie?

4. What does Bigger begin to wish for all blacks?

5. What does Bigger give his friends when he sees them the morning after Mary's murder?

(see the answer key)

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