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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 has made some changes in the face of the Negro?
(a) History.
(b) Age.
(c) Time.
(d) Slavery.

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

3. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?
(a) Our passion for knowledge.
(b) Our passion for change.
(c) Our passion for clarity.
(d) Our passion for categorization.

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

5. How does Baldwin describe a "new society" in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) One in which inequalities will disappear and vengeance will be exacted.
(b) One in which Negros and Whites work together.
(c) One in which Negros resume their slave duties.
(d) One in which inequalities change because of protests.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?

3. Why is the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set necessary for white audiences?

4. What genre of film is the movie Carmen Jones?

5. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

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