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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bigger feel about Mary Dalton?
(a) He hates her instantly.
(b) He finds her very attractive.
(c) He has no feelings about her or anyone.
(d) He feels she is just like her mother.

2. Where does Bigger and Mary take Jan after their evening out?
(a) To catch the train
(b) Home to her house
(c) To catch a bus
(d) To Mary's house

3. Where does Mary suggest she, Jan and Bigger go to eat?
(a) Ernie's Kitchen Shack
(b) Ernetsine's Chicken Shack
(c) Ms. Ernie's Rib Shack
(d) Ernie's Chicken and Ribs

4. What does Bigger daydream about during the second movie?
(a) Learning the secret to "Getting hold of money."
(b) Moving out of the ghetto and into the country.
(c) Learning how to overcome race barriers.
(d) Learning how to invest money and make it grow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Dalton's company own?

2. Bigger and Jack stay for the second movie. What is it about?

3. When the young couple treats him as an equal how does if make Bigger feel?

4. How does Bigger feel when he enters the Dalton home for the very first time?

5. The story is set in what decade?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the story Bigger planned to tell when he returned in the morning?

2. Why does Bigger need to get a job?

3. What did he find outside near the car on the night of Mary's death, and what did he do with it?

4. Describe Bigger's home.

5. After Bigger realized Mary was dead, why didn't he even consider just telling the truth?

6. What were Bigger's two final concerns about the burning body?

7. After all the gory details of the way he disposed of Mary's body, how was Bigger reacting?

8. How does Bigger really feel about holding up Blum's Delicatessen?

9. Explain the game, "White," that Bigger and his friends played.

10. Why did Bigger decide to put Mary's body in the trunk?

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