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

2. What did Baldwin claim that the soldiers who studied in Paris had in common with the rest of the soliders that fought in the war?
(a) They both spoke French.
(b) They both studied French culture.
(c) They both were Black.
(d) They both wore uniforms.

3. Of all Americans, who does Baldwin say Negroes distrust the most?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Jews.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Lawyers.

4. What issue is the American constantly confronted with in Paris?
(a) Racism.
(b) Colonization.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Identity.

5. According to Baldwin, what discovery brings an end to the alienation of the American student in Paris?
(a) Discovering American culture.
(b) Discovering European culture.
(c) Discovering America from the vantage point of Europe.
(d) Discovering America from the vantage point of the French African.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had the money to pay for the Melodeers' accommodations in Atlanta?

2. What did the parents of the Melodeers oppose prior to their departure for Atlanta?

3. What phenomenon does Baldwin address in the essay entitled, A Question of Identity?

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

5. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?

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