Notes of a Native Son Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Everybody's Protest Novel

1. Who is the author of Native Son?

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

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

4. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?

5. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?

6. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?

7. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?

8. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?

9. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

10. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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