Notes of a Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Notes of a Native Son Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?
(a) Joe Adams.
(b) Sammy Davis, Jr.
(c) Sidney Poitier.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

2. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?
(a) The music pieces were sung by middle class black people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(b) The music pieces were sung by white men and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(c) The music pieces were sung in Italian and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(d) The music pieces were sung by white people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.

3. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?
(a) Our passion for clarity.
(b) Our passion for change.
(c) Our passion for categorization.
(d) Our passion for knowledge.

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 is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.
(d) Black men are inferior to white men.

5. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Walt Disney Studios.
(b) MGM Studios.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) Twentieth Century Fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?

2. What are protest novels?

3. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Whites?

4. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?

5. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?

(see the answer key)

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