Native Son

Native Son

  

by Richard Wright

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Book One: Fear

Questions

1. What do Bigger and Buddy try to kill the rat with?
2. What class at the YMCA is Vera late for?
3. Who is the man on the poster?
4. What does the poster say?
5. What is different between Blum's Delicatessen and the other places the gang has robbed?
6. What game do Bigger and Gus play?
7. Why didn't the gang rob Blum's?
8. Who has a "deep interest" in black people?
9. How old is Bigger?
10. How much does Mr. Dalton pay Bigger?
11. What does Mary Dalton tell Bigger he should join?
12. Who does Mary introduce Bigger to?
13. Who almost catches Bigger and Mary kissing?
14. What does Bigger do with Mary's body?
15. What does Bigger do after taking care of Mary's body?

Answers

1. A skillet
2. Sewing
3. Buckley
4. "YOU CAN'T WIN"
5. They have never robbed a white man.
6. They "play white."
7. It got too late.
8. Mrs. Dalton
9. 20
10. $25 a week
11. A union
12. Jan
13. Mrs. Dalton
14. He puts it in the furnace.
15. He takes her purse and goes home.