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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Max respond when Bigger asks why people hate him so much?
(a) They don't hate just him, they hate everyone that is different from them.
(b) They are afraid of losing what they have and will even hurt others to keep it.
(c) That he had taken things from them and they hated him for it.
(d) He was not doing what they wanted him to do.

2. What does Bigger keep throwing out of his cell?
(a) His old newspapers
(b) A wooden cross
(c) His cigarette buts
(d) His food

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

4. What keeps stopping Bigger from shaking down the ashes in the furnace?
(a) He is afraid of burning himself.
(b) He doesn't know the ashes need to be removed.
(c) Fear and dread
(d) He wants to make sure Mary's body is completely burned.

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 a violent race in Russia.
(d) It's American communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bigger contemplate while standing on the rooftop?

2. What happens after Jan Erlone sees Bigger on the street and offers to help him, then invites him out for coffee to talk about the situation?

3. What is the on-going plan Bigger and his friends discuss that morning?

4. Where does Mrs. Thomas say Bigger will end up if he doesn't straighten out his life?

5. How do the police finally catch Bigger?

(see the answer key)

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