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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 is the name of the first church that Baldwin can remember attending with his family as a child?
(a) First Baptist Church.
(b) Harlem United Church.
(c) Abyssinia Baptist Church.
(d) 138th Street Baptist Church.

2. How was the 1955 production of Carmen Jones different than previous productions?
(a) It had an all-white cast.
(b) It had an all-African cast.
(c) It had an interracial cast.
(d) It had an all-Negro cast.

3. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Social.
(b) Non-existent.
(c) Sufficient.
(d) Anti-Social.

4. What are protest novels?
(a) Racism connecting nowhere to social policy.
(b) Reality connecting nowhere with fantasy.
(c) Fantasies connecting nowhere to reality.
(d) Socialism connecting nowhere to racism.

5. What stereotypical trait do the immoral and evil characters share in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Dark colored skin.
(b) Coarse hair.
(c) Overweight.
(d) Brown eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Baldwin believed that the American Negro in Paris in the 1940s and 50s was forced to exercise what practice?

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

3. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?

4. What does Baldwin say is the hatred symbol of Georgia?

5. What is the name of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?

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