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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Bigger's plans for the kidnapping farce?
(a) Put $100,000 in a hat box that he will retrieve.
(b) Have $10,000 put in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(c) Put $1,000 in a hat box that Bessie will retrieve.
(d) But $100,000 in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.

2. In Book Two as Bigger rides the streetcar, what is his only regret?
(a) That Mary's body didn't fit in the furnace. He hated all the blood when he cut off her head.
(b) That he hadn't planned the murder so he could have gotten more money and felt more successful.
(c) That he had to work.
(d) That he ever got mixed up with the Dalton's in the first place.

3. How do the police finally catch Bigger?
(a) They use a water hose to soak him.
(b) They shoot him in the leg.
(c) An officer wrestles with him and wins.
(d) They don't, he gets away one more time.

4. How far did Bigger go in school?
(a) Fifth grade
(b) Sixth grade
(c) Eighth grade
(d) High school

5. What did Bigger try to figure out during the days before his sentence was fulfilled?
(a) How he could have gotten away
(b) His feelings
(c) How to excape
(d) What he did wrong

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bigger plead at the arraignment?

2. Why did Bigger go to trial so quickly?

3. What is the third thing Bigger admitted to Max he would have liked to have been?

4. Who is Britten?

5. 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?

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