Native Son: Fear
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 356
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
- 3.Bigger looks up to the white people and wishes to be white himself.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Bigger shares everything with his family, especially his emotions.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Bigger hides his emotions behind a wall of angst and spontaneous anger.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 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.
- 7.Bigger thought that Mary's attitude towards African- Americans was ________.
- 8.Bigger is hired to be a ______ for the Dalton family.
- 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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