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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stranger in the Village.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to India.
(b) Missionaries to South America.
(c) Missionaries to America.
(d) Missionaries to Africa.

4. What gift did Baldwin's attorney friend bring him in prison?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Clean bed sheets .
(c) A bottle of French wine.
(d) Lucky Strike Cigarettes.

5. Why does Baldwin think it is safe for the film Carmen Jones to utilize an all-Negro cast?
(a) There are no white people to which the Negroes may be compared.
(b) The Negroes would see a movie with an all-Negro cast.
(c) The all-Negro cast is less intimidating.
(d) White people do not want to see an interracial cast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose records did Baldwin's father forbid his children to play?

2. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. What university were American soldiers attending in Paris?

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

5. Where did Baldwin and his white friend from New York go on Baldwin's last night in New Jersey?

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