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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Question of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion of Baldwin's father does he describe as "never to be trusted"?
(a) His father's temper.
(b) His father's sadness.
(c) His father's love.
(d) His father's kindness.

2. 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) White Americans.
(b) American Negroes.
(c) Black soldiers.
(d) The French African.

3. How does Baldwin describe a "new society" in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) One in which inequalities change because of protests.
(b) One in which inequalities will disappear and vengeance will be exacted.
(c) One in which Negros resume their slave duties.
(d) One in which Negros and Whites work together.

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

5. According to Baldwin, which students are successfully entrenched in Parisian lifestyle?
(a) Those that use their GI funding to study at Parisian university.
(b) Those that know American history.
(c) Those that take time to study the culture and People of Paris.
(d) Those that marry French women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two stereotypical figures does the author portray as portraits of the Negro in America with laudatory and heinous qualities?

2. What are protest novels?

3. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?

4. When was Baldwin's father born?

5. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?

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