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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. How many people are searching for Bigger?
(a) Eight thousand police officers.
(b) Eight thousand armed, angry, white men.
(c) Eight thousand police and vigilantes.
(d) Five thousand vigilantes.

2. What happens when Britten backs Bigger against the wall and grabs his collar asking him about the pamphlets Jan Erlone gave him?
(a) Bigger stares coldly into the eyes of Britten until the man releases him.
(b) Mr. Dalton tells Britten, Bigger probably knows nothing about them and doesn't even know Jan Erlone.
(c) Bigger wants to hit the private investigator, but controls the urge.
(d) Mr. Dalton tells Britten that Bigger probably wouldn't even understand the brochures.

3. What does Bigger finally do after wandering the streets looking for food and shelter?
(a) He buys a loaf of bread then finds an empty apartment to break into.
(b) He steals a loaf of bread then hides in an alley to eat it.
(c) He hides with a group of homeless people living near the river.
(d) He steals a loaf of bread then finds an empty apartment to break into.

4. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?
(a) Bigger slips away from the men then jumps out of a second story window into the snow.
(b) He jumps out a window and hurts his knee, so he has to walk slowly to Bessie's apartment.
(c) He jumps out of a second story windown into the snow then runs to Bessie's apartment.
(d) Bigger sneaks out of the basement door and runs to Bessie's apartment.

5. In book two, how do the reporters decide to frame their stories?
(a) That negros are becomming more involved with communisim.
(b) That the communists have plotted the kidnapping and are blaming it on Bigger.
(c) That the communists and the negros are working together to get the ransom.
(d) That the negros want to be left alone and the communists forcing their beliefs on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. After he recalls killing Mary Dalton, what did Bigger realize he left in plain sight of his mother and his siblings?

2. While hidden Bigger reads a newspaper about the search for him. Why do the authorities still think Jan Erlone is the mastermind behind the entire murder and ransom?

3. What does the white cat do while Bigger is being questioned by the police and reporters?

4. What does Bigger give his friends when he sees them the morning after Mary's murder?

5. When Bessie again declares she won't help Bigger with is ransom plan, what does bigger do to persuade her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bigger decide to try to blame Jan and the Communist Party for the kidnapping?

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

3. How did Bigger feel about killing Bessie?

4. What is the Loeb and Leopold case that gave Bigger the idea to pretend Mary was kidnapped and collect a ransom?

5. What was the argument Bigger had with his family as he tried to pack his things the day after Mary's death?

6. In Book two, what does Bigger do at the drug store?

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

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

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

10. As Bigger arrived at the Dalton home on the morning after Mary's murder how was he feeling?

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