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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. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.
(b) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(c) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.
(d) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.
2. What two stereotypical figures does the author portray as portraits of the Negro in America with laudatory and heinous qualities?
(a) Carmen Jones and Uncle Tom.
(b) Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom.
(c) Aunt Jemima and Othello.
(d) Aunt Jemima and Carmen Jones.
3. Why does Baldwin think it is safe for the film Carmen Jones to utilize an all-Negro cast?
(a) The Negroes would see a movie with an all-Negro cast.
(b) White people do not want to see an interracial cast.
(c) The all-Negro cast is less intimidating.
(d) There are no white people to which the Negroes may be compared.
4. Although it is known that African Americans are not biologically or mentally inferior, what occurred during the World War II?
(a) African Americans were not allowed to fight.
(b) The troops were integrated.
(c) The troops were segregated.
(d) The troops were evaluated.
5. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) They are divided by society.
(b) They are bound together within the same society.
(c) They are both are oppressed.
(d) They are separated by common law.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
2. According to Baldwin, what color are the robes of the saved?
3. Why is the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set necessary for white audiences?
4. How is the Negro in America referred to in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
5. According to Baldwin, what characteristic does Dorothy Dandridge have that Pearl Bailey lacks?
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