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Native Son Questions Pages 3-46

1. What does Bigger kill in these opening pages? What does this tell you about the family’s living conditions?

2. What does Bigger’s mother say about him and why?

3. Why does Bigger’s mother want him to accept a job that is being offered by Mr. Dalton?

4. Why is Bigger so interested in robbing Blum’s Delicatessan?

5. What is Bigger’s mother scared will happen to him and why?

6. What does Bigger say he would do if he could fly an airplane?

7. What does Bigger say about how the white men live? How the black men live?

8. Bigger and his friends have done robberies before. Why then are the members of Bigger’s gang so afraid to rob Blum’s?

9. Why does Bigger feel particular resentment for Gus?

10. How does Bigger first learn about Mary Dalton?

11. What does Bigger do to Gus to humiliate him?

12. Why does Doc draw a gun on Bigger. What does he tell Bigger?

13. Bigger has to walk through a white neighborhood to get to the Dalton house. What two things does he take with him to give him a sense of security?

14. How does Bigger feel as he walks through the white neighborhood?