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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bigger overhear Mrs. Dalton saying to Peggy when she learns her daughter is gone?
(a) She expresses her dislike for the people Mary travels with, and is shocked she hadn't even packed her new clothing for the trip.
(b) She expains that she does not trust the people Mary associates herself with, and suspects they have something to do with Mary not being home.
(c) She complains that she took her daughter shopping for expensive clothing that she didn't even pack for her trip.
(d) She admits she isn't comfortable with Bigger living in the house and wonders if he frightened her daughter away.

2. Who is Britten?
(a) A detective with the Chicago P.D..
(b) A neighbor who saw Bigger carrying Mary into the house the night before.
(c) A private investigator Mr. Dalton hired that day to find Mary.
(d) A private investigator from Mr. Dalton's company.

3. What things does Mrs. Dalton question Bigger about when she comes to his room?
(a) About where he took Mary the night before.
(b) About Jan Erlone's involvement with the communists.
(c) About Mary leaving her new clothing behind.
(d) About where the car was parked, the trunk and Jan Erlone.

4. What idea does Bigger get after Bessie mentions he is working near the site of the Leopold and Loeb case?
(a) Contacting Leopold and Loeb for advice
(b) That he and Bessie should go out on the town
(c) Blaming Mary's disappeareance on Leopold and Loeb
(d) Kidnapping and ransom

5. What does Peggy decide must have happened to Mary?
(a) To Bigger's shock she told him that Mary has lost her head since dating Jan Erlone.
(b) Mary probably waited for Bigger to leave then snuck out of the house again.
(c) There must have been some kind of foul play because Mary is usally very responsible.
(d) Mary probably left earlier than expected because she is usually unpredictable.

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

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

8. What are Bigger's plans for the kidnapping farce?
(a) But $100,000 in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(b) Put $1,000 in a hat box that Bessie will retrieve.
(c) Have $10,000 put in a shoe box that will be dropped and Bessie will retrieve.
(d) Put $100,000 in a hat box that he will retrieve.

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

10. In Book Two Bigger is feeling very confident and powerful, except when he sleeps and dreams. What does he dream about after his first meeting with Britten.
(a) A church bell that turns out to be a warning bell urging him to hide himself and his package.
(b) He tries to run from the blood, the coal, and white faces.
(c) All are correct.
(d) He is carrying a package that turns out to be his own severed, bloddy head wrapped in paper.

11. What does Bigger contemplate while standing on the rooftop?
(a) Jumping to his death.
(b) Trying to look for a fire escape.
(c) Trying to jump to the next building.
(d) Shooting himself.

12. What does Bigger do with the pamphlets Jan gave him the night before?
(a) He burns them.
(b) He throws them in the trash.
(c) He goes to his room in the Dalton house and carefully puts them in his drawer.
(d) He sits on the bed and reads them.

13. 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?
(a) Bigger pulls a gun on Jan Erlone.
(b) Bigger tells Jan Erlone he doesn't need his help.
(c) Jan Erlone runs away when he sees Bigger has a knife.
(d) Bigger runs away.

14. What happens when the first police officer comes through the trap door to the rooftop?
(a) Bigger knocks him unconscious.
(b) Bigger shootes him.
(c) Bigger throws snowballs at him.
(d) Bigger runs away.

15. How does Bigger compare his family to Mary Dalton?
(a) He sees his family as afraid as compared to Mary's confidence.
(b) He sees his family's poor existence compared to Mary's rich life.
(c) He sees his family as a burden compared to new possibilites created by Mary's death.
(d) He sees his family as alive compared to Mary being dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What goes through Bigger's mind when he hears the music from the church?

2. What happens when one of the men discovers bone and an earring in the ashes?

3. How does Bigger sign the ransom note he has written to Mr. Dalton?

4. Where does Bigger place the ransom note to be certain Mr. Dalton gets it?

5. In Book Two as Bigger rides the streetcar, what is his only regret?

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