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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 the job Mr. Dalton is hiring Bigger to do?
(a) chauffeur
(b) butler
(c) window washer
(d) handy-man

2. How does Max respond when Bigger asks why people hate him so much?
(a) They don't hate just him, they hate everyone that is different from them.
(b) They are afraid of losing what they have and will even hurt others to keep it.
(c) He was not doing what they wanted him to do.
(d) That he had taken things from them and they hated him for it.

3. What does the State's Attorney Buckley get Bigger to do?
(a) Sign a confession
(b) Admit he is sorry
(c) Pray for forgiveness
(d) Eat

4. How does Bigger feel when he enters the Dalton home for the very first time?
(a) Indifferent
(b) Uncomfortable
(c) Worried
(d) Lucky

5. What is the on-going plan Bigger and his friends discuss that morning?
(a) Robbing Blum's Delicatessin
(b) Taking classes at the YMCA
(c) Robbing a liquior store
(d) Going to college

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bigger plead at the arraignment?

2. After Bigger returns to the Dalton home with Mary's trunk, he again goes to check the furnace. Who interrupts him?

3. What does Jan Erlone think when he hears Bigger's lie about him?

4. 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?

5. After they leave the movie and go to the pool hall, what does Bigger do?

(see the answer key)

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