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Native Son | Book 2: Flight Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What experience causes Bigger to look with disgust at his family’s tenement room?

2. What lie does Bigger tell to Mr. and Mrs. Dalton and Mr. Britten, to make them think that Jan must know something about Mary’s disappearance?

3. Why does Bigger keep the Communist pamphlets Jan has given him, and what happens when they are discovered?

4. Why does Bessie drink liquor, and what does her drinking have to do with her relationship to Bigger?

5. How does Bessie give Bigger the idea to pretend Mary has been kidnapped, and then to...


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