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

2. What is the theme of the movie Bigger and Jack go to see?
(a) That white people will suffer in the depression
(b) That white's are all communists
(c) That blacks can also be rich
(d) The lifestyle of rich white people

3. What Bigger and his friends call the game they play?
(a) "Black" against "White"
(b) "White"
(c) Kick the can
(d) Catch me if you can

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

5. Where does Bigger take the trunk with the body inside?
(a) To a dumpster
(b) Into the garage
(c) Out to the car
(d) Into the basement

Short Answer Questions

1. What doe Bigger and Jack think being "Red" is?

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

3. When Peggy gives Bigger dinner, what other job does she tell Bigger he must do?

4. When the young couple treats him as an equal how does if make Bigger feel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the Dalton's make Bigger feel so uncomfortable?

5. Why did Bigger help Mary to her room instead of waking her parents and letting them know her drunken condition?

6. How does Bigger really feel about holding up Blum's Delicatessen?

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

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

9. After Bigger realized Mary was dead, why didn't he even consider just telling the truth?

10. Describe Bigger's home.

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