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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes of a Native Son.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What genre of film is the movie Carmen Jones?
(a) Drama .
(b) Horror.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Opera.

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

3. What was the political affiliation of the Amsterdam Star-News?
(a) Republican.
(b) Independent.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Progressive.

4. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Walt Disney Studios.
(b) Twentieth Century Fox.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) MGM Studios.

5. Since Negroes have been in this country, Baldwin writes that their one devastating gain was:
(a) Colonization.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Emancipation.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper rivaled the Amsterdam Star-News in the 1940s?

2. What does Baldwin suggest the presupposition of the two novels Kingsblood Royal and If He Hollers Let Him Go are in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

3. Where can the true raison d'être of the Negro press be found?

4. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?

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

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