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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 are protest novels?
(a) Reality connecting nowhere with fantasy.
(b) Fantasies connecting nowhere to reality.
(c) Socialism connecting nowhere to racism.
(d) Racism connecting nowhere to social policy.

2. Who is the author of Native Son?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Richard Wright.

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

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

5. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(b) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.
(c) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.
(d) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?

2. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Blacks?

3. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

4. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?

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

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