Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 170 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 overhear Mrs. Dalton saying to Peggy when she learns her daughter is gone?
(a) She complains that she took her daughter shopping for expensive clothing that she didn't even pack for her trip.
(b) She expains that she does not trust the people Mary associates herself with, and suspects they have something to do with Mary not being home.
(c) She admits she isn't comfortable with Bigger living in the house and wonders if he frightened her daughter away.
(d) She expresses her dislike for the people Mary travels with, and is shocked she hadn't even packed her new clothing for the trip.

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

3. What is the third thing Bigger admitted to Max he would have liked to have been?
(a) A father
(b) A police officer
(c) A teacher
(d) In business

4. Where does Bigger and Mary take Jan after their evening out?
(a) To Mary's house
(b) To catch the train
(c) Home to her house
(d) To catch a bus

5. What happens when Bigger arrives at Bessie's apartment and he tries to kiss her?
(a) She isn't interested because he ignored her at the diner.
(b) She argues with him about not being home when she tried to visit him the night before.
(c) She tells him that since he now has a job he can marry her.
(d) She tells him if he doesn't marry her it means he is ashamed of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bigger feel about Mary Dalton?

2. What does Max say is possible if the wealthy don't begin to understand what they are doing to the Negros in America?

3. In book two, how do the reporters decide to frame their stories?

4. What does Bigger keep throwing out of his cell?

5. What is Bigger's final request of Max?

(see the answer key)

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