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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Bigger say white people live?
(a) On the south side of Chicago
(b) In the ghetto
(c) Inside him and all other black people
(d) Inside fancy mansions

2. Who does Bigger decide to blame for Mary's death?
(a) Jack
(b) Bessie Mears
(c) Peggy
(d) Jan Erlone

3. The story is set in what decade?
(a) 1950's
(b) 1930's
(c) 1920's
(d) 1940's

4. What does Bigger do to Bessie after they go to the old building to hide?
(a) He rapes her then cuts off her head like he did Mary's and throws her body down an air shaft.
(b) He rapes her then after she falls alseep kills her with a brick then throws her body down an air shaft.
(c) He sleeps then awakens realizing he must kill Bessie.
(d) He smashes her head with a brick then runs away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Mary when Bigger takes her home?

2. What is Bigger's only regret about what he did to Bessie?

3. What does Bigger do after the body is finally disposed of?

4. Where does Bigger take the trunk with the body inside?

5. How does Bigger get Mary to her room without disturbing anyone?

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