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Native Son | Book 3: Fate Questions and Answers

Study Questions
1. What is the difference between a grand jury and a trial jury? Between an inquest and a trial?

2. Shortly after Bigger recovers from his fainting spell at the inquest, twelve people come to see him in his cell. Who are they?

3. What are some of the reasons that Bigger begins to trust Jan and Boris Max?

4. Why does Bigger attack Reverend Hammond and discard the cross Hammond has given him?

5. What two incidents in the novel indicate that the author believes that the psychiatric profession has contributed to racism?

6. Why...


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