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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After winning the battle with "the beast" what does Bigger do?
(a) He sits down to eat dinner.
(b) He shows his mother his prize.
(c) He hides the remains.
(d) He frightens his sister, Vera, with the body.

2. Where does Bigger Thomas and his family live?
(a) In a condo on the river
(b) In the basement of an abandoned building
(c) A shack along the waterfront
(d) An apartment in the "Black Belt"

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

4. As Bigger is leaving the Dalton home after Mary's death, what does he find near the Dalton's car?
(a) Mary's expensive necklace
(b) The pamphlets Jan gave him
(c) A bottle of rum
(d) Mary's purse

5. What happens when Bigger's mother sees the Daltons standing in the back of Bigger's cell?
(a) She falls to her knees and begs them for her son's life and offers to work for them the rest of her life if they help him.
(b) She tells them how sorry she is that her son did such a horrific thing to their daughter.
(c) She wraps her arms around them and prays for their loss.
(d) She offers to spend the rest of her days making it up to them for what Bigger did.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far did Bigger go in school?

2. While hidden Bigger reads a newspaper about the search for him. Why do the authorities still think Jan Erlone is the mastermind behind the entire murder and ransom?

3. How many bedrooms does the Thomas family share?

4. What does Bigger think about the disbelief he reads on the faces of his friends when they visit him in jail?

5. In what ways does Bigger act to give the impression he thinks Mary is asleep upstairs in her bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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