Native Son: Fear
10 Questions
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These questions are based off of our descussion questions from book one.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
What were some of Bigger's motives behind mocking the white people?
- 2.
What were some of the underlying emotions in the scene with Bigger and Gus?
- A.
Fear and grief
- B.
Injustice and oppression
- C.
Joy and excitement
- D.
Guilt and denial
Correct Answer
B. Injustice and oppression -
- 3.
Bigger looks up to the white people and wishes to be white himself.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 4.
Bigger shares everything with his family, especially his emotions.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
B. False -
- 5.
Bigger hides his emotions behind a wall of angst and spontaneous anger.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 6.
Why did Bigger feel strange being seen in public with two white people?
- A.
He felt that he was not good enough to be around them.
- B.
It was very late and he felt too exhausted to be out and about.
- C.
He was worried that Mr. Dalton was going to get mad that Bigger took his fancy car to the "bad" side of town.
- D.
He was ashamed to be seen in public with the white couple because he felt that other people in the African-American community would think he's a suck up to white people.
Correct Answer
D. He was ashamed to be seen in public with the white couple because he felt that other people in the African-American community would think he's a suck up to white people. -
- 7.
Bigger thought that Mary's attitude towards African- Americans was ________.
Correct Answer
weird
strange
different
threatening
suspicious
odd - 8.
Bigger is hired to be a ______ for the Dalton family.
Correct Answer
driver
chauffeur
chaperone
escort - 9.
What did Bigger do to Mary Dalton? Was it accidental? How did he do it? How did he feel afterwards?
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