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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tool(s) does Baldwin take with him to the Swiss village?
(a) Printing Press.
(b) Pens and Pencils.
(c) Typewriter.
(d) Books.

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

3. What phenomenon does Baldwin address in the essay entitled, A Question of Identity?
(a) Americans who chose to remain in Paris after the war.
(b) African Americans who leave America to write about race in America.
(c) Americans who fought in the war.
(d) Americans who chose to remain in America after the war.

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

5. According to Baldwin, where does the family lineage of any black man in America stop?
(a) Africa.
(b) Colonization.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) The slave trade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Baldwin give for not believing that ex-GIs traveled to Paris to study?

2. What prison was Baldwin's friend sent to that he was forbidden to enter?

3. Where did Baldwin live while in Paris?

4. According to Baldwin, what is afforded to American students in Paris?

5. According to Baldwin, how did an American Negro view another American Negro in Paris during the 1940s and 50s?

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