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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Many Thousands Gone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Blacks?
(a) Social Literature.
(b) Protest Literature.
(c) Problem Literature.
(d) Change Literature.

2. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?
(a) To bring greater freedom to the oppressed.
(b) To bring the ideals of socialism to the oppressed.
(c) To bring Christianity to the oppressed.
(d) To bring greater charity to the oppressed.

3. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Racial prejudice.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Self-worth.
(d) Self-righteousness.

4. What does Baldwin suggest the presupposition of the two novels Kingsblood Royal and If He Hollers Let Him Go are in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) The Negro is a man without a homeland.
(b) Blacks need to make themselves less offensive.
(c) Black men are inferior to white men.
(d) Black is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.

5. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) They are both are oppressed.
(b) They are bound together within the same society.
(c) They are separated by common law.
(d) They are divided by society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?

2. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?

3. According to Baldwin, what color is associated with evil?

4. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?

5. According to Baldwin, who are the three most important characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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