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

2. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?
(a) To escape the racial prejudice of Africa.
(b) To study French culture.
(c) To escape the racial prejudice of America.
(d) To live with a French family.

3. What stereotypical trait is shared by the female and male leads in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Light colored skin.
(b) Fine hair.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Dark colored skin.

4. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
(a) The changes it suggests about the lives of Negroes.
(b) The questions it leaves in the mind relate more to inferior life of Americans.
(c) The impression it leaves about the realities of Negro life.
(d) The questions it leaves about the relationship between Whites and Negroes.

5. What is one way that Baldwin claims a person can become entrenched in the Parisian lifestyle?
(a) Marrying a French citizen.
(b) Visiting the American embassy in France.
(c) Living with a French Family.
(d) Eating a French cafes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, who are the three most important characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. According to Baldwin, how does the book Native Son obliterate the good will of the people as a whole?

3. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?

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?

5. What color clothing did Baldwin say he did not have to wear to his father's funeral?

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