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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the on-going plan Bigger and his friends discuss that morning?
(a) Robbing a liquior store
(b) Robbing Blum's Delicatessin
(c) Going to college
(d) Taking classes at the YMCA

2. Where does Bigger Thomas and his family live?
(a) A shack along the waterfront
(b) In a condo on the river
(c) In the basement of an abandoned building
(d) An apartment in the "Black Belt"

3. How many bedrooms does the Thomas family share?
(a) Three
(b) Two
(c) Four
(d) One

4. What terrorizes the family in the opening of the novel?
(a) A gunman
(b) A rat
(c) A rabid cat
(d) Their landlord

5. After Bigger threatens Gus, who prevents him from attacking the other man?
(a) Jack
(b) Bigger's mom
(c) Vera
(d) G. H.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the novel "Native Son" take place?

2. What is the theme of the movie Bigger and Jack go to see?

3. Where does Bigger and Mary take Jan after their evening out?

4. What happens when Bigger puts Mary's body in the trunk?

5. How does Bigger plan to explain his fingerprints in Mary's bedroom?

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