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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bigger's reaction when his mother's pastor comes to see him?
(a) He tells the man to get out and never come back.
(b) Regret that he didn't listen ore closely in Sunday School.
(c) He feels it is too late for him to change how he feels. His fate is sealed.
(d) Anger that God would allow this to happen to him.

2. What does Bigger's brother, Buddy, offer to do to defend him?
(a) He offers to like and say Bigger was with him the entire night of the murder.
(b) He offers to testify as a character witness.
(c) He offers to say he murdered Mary.
(d) He offers to kill four or five white people.

3. On the streetcar on the way to Bessie's apartment what does Bigger want to shout?
(a) That he killed a rich, white girl.
(b) That he knew something they didn't know.
(c) That he was lucky to have a good job.
(d) That he was in love with a beautiful girl.

4. What idea does Bigger get after Bessie mentions he is working near the site of the Leopold and Loeb case?
(a) That he and Bessie should go out on the town
(b) Contacting Leopold and Loeb for advice
(c) Kidnapping and ransom
(d) Blaming Mary's disappeareance on Leopold and Loeb

5. What does Bigger decide to do with Mary's body next?
(a) Put it in a dumpster near the train station.
(b) Sink the trunk and the body in the river.
(c) Ship it in the trunk to Jan
(d) Burn it in the furnace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Book Three titled?

2. Why is Max upset during his final conversation with Bigger?

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

4. To what does Max compare the 12 million Negros living in the United States?

5. Why is Bigger afraid of being caught in Mary's bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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