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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?
(a) She thinks her daugher is asleep.
(b) She goes to get her husband.
(c) She smells liquor and thinks her daughter is passed out.
(d) She is afraid of Bigger.

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

3. What two words best describe Bigger in this opening part of the novel?
(a) Helpless and Strong
(b) Pessimistic and Angry
(c) Hopeless and Fun-loving
(d) Angry and Joker

4. What does Bigger daydream about during the second movie?
(a) Learning the secret to "Getting hold of money."
(b) Learning how to overcome race barriers.
(c) Learning how to invest money and make it grow.
(d) Moving out of the ghetto and into the country.

5. What does Mr. Dalton's company own?
(a) A limo service.
(b) The home in the ghetto where Bigger lives.
(c) The oldest bank in the city.
(d) A construction company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bigger and Jack stay for the second movie. What is it about?

2. What does Bigger do after the body is finally disposed of?

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

4. Why does Mrs. Dalton express disappoint in Bigger?

5. As Bigger is leaving the Dalton home after Mary's death, what does he find near the Dalton's car?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the story Bigger planned to tell when he returned in the morning?

2. What happened when Mary's body didn't fit into the furnace?

3. Why did Bigger want to kill the cat?

4. Why does Bigger panic when Mrs. Dalton enters Mary's room while he is in there?

5. What does it mean about Bigger "Feeling his blackness," even more after Mary Dalton and Jan Erlone's attempts at being friendly?

6. Why does Bigger seem to take an instant dislike to Mary Dalton?

7. What were Bigger's two final concerns about the burning body?

8. Why does Bigger get so angry and violent with Gus when he says he'll go along with the robbery?

9. What is the symbolism of the two movies Bigger and his friends saw?

10. Explain the game, "White," that Bigger and his friends played.

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