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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. Where did the Melodeers ultimately end up rehearsing for their performances in Atlanta?
(a) YMCA.
(b) A Negro motel.
(c) A private home.
(d) YWCA.

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

3. How was the 1955 production of Carmen Jones different than previous productions?
(a) It had an all-white cast.
(b) It had an all-African cast.
(c) It had an interracial cast.
(d) It had an all-Negro cast.

4. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Pearl Bailey.
(b) Carmen Jones.
(c) Lena Horne.
(d) Dorothy Dandridge.

5. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?
(a) The American past that is disregarded in Europe.
(b) The African past that is disregarded in Europe.
(c) The European future.
(d) The European present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the language and dialect in the film Carmen Jones considered an insult on black people?

2. Who played the lead male role in the film Carmen Jones?

3. How many of Baldwin's brothers were in the quartet?

4. Who was the legal guardian and road manager of the Melodeers during their journey to Atlanta?

5. Of all Americans, who does Baldwin say Negroes distrust the most?

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