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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What negative stereotype does the character Carmen Jones perpetuate?
(a) The stereotype of rampant sexuality.
(b) The stereotype of light skinned Negroes being smarter than dark skinned Negroes.
(c) The stereotype of subservient Negro women.
(d) The stereotype of Negro women being the desire of white men's lust.

2. Why does Baldwin criticize the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set?
(a) Because they do not show the intermingling of working class Negroes and Whites.
(b) Because they do not accurately portray the working-class.
(c) Because it does not accurately portray the American ghetto.
(d) Because they do not accurately portray the environments of the working class Negroes characterized in the movie.

3. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?
(a) At the point that the person enters the country and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(b) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(c) At the point where the individual reaches Ellis Island in New York.
(d) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and receives their U.S. citizenship from the government.

4. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?
(a) Native Son.
(b) Carmen Jones.
(c) Black No More.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

5. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?
(a) A YMCA in Atlanta, GA.
(b) A Harlem apartment.
(c) The projects of the Bronx, NY.
(d) A Chicago tenement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has made some changes in the face of the Negro?

2. According to Baldwin, how does the book Native Son obliterate the good will of the people as a whole?

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

4. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?

5. According to Baldwin, if black faces cannot be made white then what other way can they be changed in order to be less offensive to white society?

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