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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Bigger feel about Mary Dalton?
(a) He feels she is just like her mother.
(b) He finds her very attractive.
(c) He hates her instantly.
(d) He has no feelings about her or anyone.

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

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

6. What is Vera doing at the YWCA?
(a) Learning to swim
(b) Taking sewing lessons
(c) Teaching a class
(d) Meeting her boyfriend

7. On Bigger's first night at work, what does he, Mary and Jan do as they drive around the park?
(a) Talk about Mary's upcoming trip.
(b) Get drunk and read pamphlets
(c) Drink beer, rum and talk about communism.
(d) Drink until they all pass out.

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

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

10. Why is Bigger afraid of being caught in Mary's bedroom?
(a) He is black and she is white
(b) He doesn't want to lose his job
(c) He isn't afraid of anything
(d) He already has a girlfriend who is jealous

11. After they leave the movie and go to the pool hall, what does Bigger do?
(a) Gets in a fight with Gus then breaks a bottle and cuts the felt top of the pool table.
(b) He picks a fight with the owner of the pool hall then stabs Gus.
(c) Gets in a fight with Gus, then slices the felt top of the pool table with his knife.
(d) He says he wants to break into the Dalton home instead of Blum's Delicatessin.

12. What does Bigger tell his friend Gus he could do if he had the chance?
(a) Drive a car
(b) Earn a lot of money
(c) Rob a bank
(d) Fly a plane

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

14. How does Bigger feel when he enters the Dalton home for the very first time?
(a) Uncomfortable
(b) Lucky
(c) Worried
(d) Indifferent

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?

2. What does Bigger do after he puts Mary to bed?

3. What Bigger and his friends call the game they play?

4. After winning the battle with "the beast" what does Bigger do?

5. What does Bigger do to silence Mary in her room?

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