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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?
(a) He jumps out a window and hurts his knee, so he has to walk slowly to Bessie's apartment.
(b) Bigger slips away from the men then jumps out of a second story window into the snow.
(c) He jumps out of a second story windown into the snow then runs to Bessie's apartment.
(d) Bigger sneaks out of the basement door and runs to Bessie's apartment.

2. Tell whom the lone witness to Bigger's crime is?
(a) The Dalton's white cat.
(b) Peggy the housekeeper
(c) Mrs. Dalton
(d) A neighbor peeking out their window

3. In Max's statement to the court in Part Three of the novel, how does he portray the 12 million Negros living in the United States?
(a) As devoid of political, social, economic and property rights.
(b) As a separate nation.
(c) As stunted, stripped and held captive.
(d) All three

4. What happens when the first police officer comes through the trap door to the rooftop?
(a) Bigger runs away.
(b) Bigger knocks him unconscious.
(c) Bigger throws snowballs at him.
(d) Bigger shootes him.

5. How does the novel end?
(a) Bigger wears a "faint, wry, bitter smile" as he listens to the far door clang shut.
(b) He finally cries.
(c) He shouts that he is sorry as Max walks away.
(d) He laughs and lays down in his cot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps stopping Bigger from shaking down the ashes in the furnace?

2. Why does Max say a change of venue wouldn't matter?

3. How does Max have Bigger plead at his trial?

4. In book two when Bigger finally falls asleep after hearing Peggy and Mrs. Dalton talking about Mary, what does he recall in his dream?

5. Before Bigger puts more coal on the fire, what is he certain he sees in the furnace?

(see the answer key)

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