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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Bigger when arrives at the Dalton home for his interview, what question plagues him as he stands outside the house?
(a) He's concerned he won't be able to do the job.
(b) Whether he should be dressed in nicer clothing.
(c) Whether he should go to the front door or the back.
(d) He's worried they will dislike him because he is black.

2. Where does Bigger have a job interview?
(a) At the supermarket
(b) At Blum's Delicatessin
(c) At YMCA
(d) At the Dalton's

3. How does Bigger see Jan Erlone for the first time when Jan visits him in jail?
(a) As a communist.
(b) As a friend.
(c) As a man, not a "white" man.
(d) As a scape goat.

4. How is building Bigger chose as the lookout point for the money drop described in the story.
(a) A large, white building.
(b) A tall, white and silent building.
(c) A vacant building in the slums.
(d) A white, vacant, quiet building.

5. After Bigger leaves Bessie and returns to the Dalton's house what does Peggy tell him to do and why?
(a) To take the trunk to the attic because the Dalton's will start worrying about Mary if they see it.
(b) Go to the train station and find out what has happened to Mary's trunk.
(c) She tells him to take the day off because everyone is too worried about Mary to need his services that day.
(d) Go the the train station and pick up Mary's trunk because no one claimed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Boris Max?

2. How did Bigger plead at the arraignment?

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

4. Where does Bigger say white people live?

5. On the streetcar on the way to Bessie's apartment what does Bigger want to shout?

(see the answer key)

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