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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What things does Mrs. Dalton question Bigger about when she comes to his room?
(a) About Jan Erlone's involvement with the communists.
(b) About Mary leaving her new clothing behind.
(c) About where the car was parked, the trunk and Jan Erlone.
(d) About where he took Mary the night before.

2. What does Mrs. Thomas want Bigger to do to help the family?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Get them a better place to live.
(c) Go to Blum's Delicatessin to get dinner.
(d) Go to the supermarket for rat poison.

3. What does Max say is possible if the wealthy don't begin to understand what they are doing to the Negros in America?
(a) Another world war
(b) Another civil war
(c) An uprising
(d) There will eventually be more Negros and they will use their vote to change things.

4. What does Bigger say the white people do to black people?
(a) Keep the blacks in one area and won't let them into any other area.
(b) They kill them one by one hoping to get rid of them all.
(c) They try to help them by giving them jobs no one should have to do.
(d) They want to be friends with them.

5. What does Bigger say about church and religion?
(a) Only poor people are happy in church.
(b) It's for whipped folks.
(c) All of the above
(d) If he was religious he'd be dead now.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bigger realize after Mrs. Dalton leaves Mary's bedroom?

3. What is the real crime Bigger thinks he committed?

4. Near the end of Book Three, what did Bigger say to Max when he saw him for the last time?

5. After he returns to work at the Dalton house, what happens when Peggy asks Bigger to tend to the furnace because it has been running too hot?

(see the answer key)

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