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

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

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

4. 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) The pamphlets Jan gave him
(c) A bottle of rum
(d) Mary's expensive necklace

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Mrs. Dalton leave Mary's bedroom when she comes to check on her daughter?

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

3. Where does Bigger take the trunk with the body inside?

4. On Bigger's first night at work, what does he, Mary and Jan do as they drive around the park?

5. What is Vera doing at the YWCA?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bigger want to kill the cat?

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

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

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

5. After all the gory details of the way he disposed of Mary's body, how was Bigger reacting?

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

7. Why did Bigger decide to put Mary's body in the trunk?

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

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

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

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