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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 term does Baldwin use to describe the lives of American student in Paris in the 1950s?
(a) Social Butterflies.
(b) Social Limbo.
(c) Social Congruence.
(d) Social Stability.

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

3. Where is Atlanta located?
(a) New York.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Mississippi.

4. What was the aim of the quartet groups like the Melodeers?
(a) To travel to other parts of the country.
(b) To sing at churches.
(c) To make a livelihood from music.
(d) To change Whites' views of Black music.

5. Why did Baldwin think the Negro vote was so easily bought and sold in the 1940s?
(a) Because Blacks did care about politics.
(b) Because it was treated with little respect.
(c) Because Whites has a great influence in Black politics.
(d) Because Blacks were in need of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What issue is the American constantly confronted with in Paris?

3. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?

4. What negative stereotype does the character Carmen Jones perpetuate?

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

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