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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes of a Native Son.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?
(a) At the point that the person enters the country and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(b) At the point where the individual reaches Ellis Island in New York.
(c) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(d) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and receives their U.S. citizenship from the government.

2. The story of Carmen Jones deals with what type of people?
(a) Immortal
(b) Moral.
(c) Immortal.
(d) Amoral.

3. What newspaper rivaled the Amsterdam Star-News in the 1940s?
(a) The People's Voice.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Pittsburgh Courier.
(d) The Afro-American.

4. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(b) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.
(c) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.
(d) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.

5. Where was Baldwin's father born?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Harlem.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the language and dialect in the film Carmen Jones considered an insult on black people?

2. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?

3. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

4. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?

5. What did Baldwin drink before his father's funeral?

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