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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 happens when the first police officer comes through the trap door to the rooftop?
(a) Bigger runs away.
(b) Bigger shootes him.
(c) Bigger throws snowballs at him.
(d) Bigger knocks him unconscious.

2. How does Bigger compare his family to Mary Dalton?
(a) He sees his family as alive compared to Mary being dead.
(b) He sees his family as a burden compared to new possibilites created by Mary's death.
(c) He sees his family's poor existence compared to Mary's rich life.
(d) He sees his family as afraid as compared to Mary's confidence.

3. What idea does Bigger get after Bessie mentions he is working near the site of the Leopold and Loeb case?
(a) Contacting Leopold and Loeb for advice
(b) Blaming Mary's disappeareance on Leopold and Loeb
(c) That he and Bessie should go out on the town
(d) Kidnapping and ransom

4. After he recalls killing Mary Dalton, what did Bigger realize he left in plain sight of his mother and his siblings?
(a) The knife
(b) His bloody clothing
(c) Mary's purse
(d) The pamphlets Jan gave him

5. In Book Two Bigger is feeling very confident and powerful, except when he sleeps and dreams. What does he dream about after his first meeting with Britten.
(a) He is carrying a package that turns out to be his own severed, bloddy head wrapped in paper.
(b) All are correct.
(c) A church bell that turns out to be a warning bell urging him to hide himself and his package.
(d) He tries to run from the blood, the coal, and white faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. The South Side Real Estate Company is what to Bigger?

2. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?

3. Why does Bigger seem bothered that the newspaper only just wrote about him after he killed Mary?

4. How many people are searching for Bigger?

5. Where does Bigger make his last stand?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things made the Daltons begin to worry about their daughter being gone?

2. What is the one problem Bigger feels he has to do before he will be okay?

3. What was Bessie's reaction when Bigger arrived at her apartment the morning after the murder of Mary?

4. Although Bigger was very quick with his deceit and able to think on his feet, so to speak, in what way was he becoming his own worst enemy?

5. How did Bigger feel about killing Bessie?

6. In what ways was Bigger's capture similar to the opening of the book when Bigger chased, eventually killing the rat?

7. Bigger was very much interested in reading about himself in the newspapers. Of what significance was this?

8. What did Bigger's brother, Buddy, have to say to him?

9. What was Bigger's fatal mistake in his plan to dispose of Mary's body?

10. What deterred the Daltons from being excessively concerned when they found Mary wasn't in the house the morning after she was murdered?

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