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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bigger and Jack stay for the second movie. What is it about?
(a) Multi-cultural dances
(b) Naked native Africans dancing to drums.
(c) Native African's hunting in the jungle
(d) Black Americans

2. Where do Mary and Jan sit in the car?
(a) In the back seat.
(b) In the front seat with Bigger.
(c) The sit in the front and ask Bigger to sit in the back.
(d) The don't, they walk.

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

4. When Bigger when arrives at the Dalton home for his interview, what question plagues him as he stands outside the house?
(a) Whether he should go to the front door or the back.
(b) He's concerned he won't be able to do the job.
(c) He's worried they will dislike him because he is black.
(d) Whether he should be dressed in nicer clothing.

5. Why does Mrs. Dalton express disappoint in Bigger?
(a) Because he has a prison record.
(b) Because he doesn't like her family.
(c) Because he is in a gang.
(d) Because he does not want to continue his education.

6. What is the title of the first part of the novel?
(a) Lost Soul
(b) Rage
(c) Fear
(d) Anger

7. Where is Mary Dalton expected to go on the day after Bigger is hired by her father?
(a) University
(b) Detroit
(c) To a union meeting
(d) To a communist rally

8. What is wrong with Mary when Bigger takes her home?
(a) She wants to go right to Detroit.
(b) She is too drunk to walk.
(c) She is very sick.
(d) She doesn't want to go home.

9. What is different about Bigger and his friend's plan this time?
(a) They will use a gun and the person is white.
(b) They will use a car to getaway.
(c) They will wear the jersey of a vival gang.
(d) They will do it in daylight instead of night.

10. What does Bigger do after he puts Mary to bed?
(a) He kisses her
(b) He puts her into her nightgown
(c) He covers her
(d) He leaves her alone

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

12. When the young couple treats him as an equal how does if make Bigger feel?
(a) Like he should quit the new job.
(b) He feels uneasy and hates them.
(c) Like dumping them and picking up his friends.
(d) He likes them immediately.

13. Who answers the door when Bigger finally knocks on the door of the Dalton house?
(a) The butler.
(b) The house-keeper.
(c) Mr. Dalton
(d) Mary Dalton

14. What doe Bigger and Jack think being "Red" is?
(a) It's to do with Native Americans.
(b) That it is better to be "Red" than dead.
(c) It's a violent race in Russia.
(d) It's American communists.

15. The story is set in what decade?
(a) 1940's
(b) 1930's
(c) 1920's
(d) 1950's

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mrs. Dalton speaks to Bigger in the kitchen, what surprises him about her?

2. What does Bigger decide to do with Mary's body next?

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

4. How does Bigger get Mary to her room without disturbing anyone?

5. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?

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