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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. Why is the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set necessary for white audiences?
(a) The cleanliness makes white audiences more comfortable with the role of the lead male Negro.
(b) The cleanliness makes white audiences want to watch more Negro movies.
(c) The cleanliness makes white audiences more comfortable with seeing Negroes in familiar situations.
(d) The cleanliness makes white audiences view the black actors as equals.

2. Why does Baldwin criticize the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set?
(a) Because they do not accurately portray the environments of the working class Negroes characterized in the movie.
(b) Because they do not accurately portray the working-class.
(c) Because it does not accurately portray the American ghetto.
(d) Because they do not show the intermingling of working class Negroes and Whites.

3. What has made some changes in the face of the Negro?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Time.
(c) Age.
(d) History.

4. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?
(a) Native Son.
(b) Carmen Jones.
(c) Black No More.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?

2. According to Baldwin, what characteristic does Dorothy Dandridge have that Pearl Bailey lacks?

3. According to Baldwin, if black faces cannot be made white then what other way can they be changed in order to be less offensive to white society?

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

5. Although it is known that African Americans are not biologically or mentally inferior, what occurred during the World War II?

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