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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of accommodations were promised to the Melodeers prior to leaving for Atlanta?
(a) Two to a room.
(b) Four to a room.
(c) One to a room.
(d) Dormitory style accommodations.

2. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) George S. Schuyler.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

3. What impeded the Progressive Party's progression in Harlem during the 1940s?
(a) The campaign promises were geared towards African Americans.
(b) The campaign promises were too extravagant.
(c) The campaign promises were geared towards Whites.
(d) The campaign promises were too common.

4. Which of the following artists was mentioned in the Harlem Ghetto chapter as having a column in the People's Voice?
(a) Joe Adams.
(b) Dorothy Dandridge.
(c) Lena Horne.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

5. Which group did Baldwin mention as living together in groups - in the same neighborhoods and student hotels - while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) American Negroes.
(b) The French African.
(c) White Americans.
(d) Black soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?

2. How many of Baldwin's brothers were in the quartet?

3. How has Harlem changed since Baldwin's parents' lifetime?

4. What reason does Baldwin give for Blacks living in Paris?

5. Who were the only white people that visited Baldwin's childhood home?

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