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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Equal in Paris.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who played the lead male role in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Sidney Poitier.
(b) Joe Adams.
(c) Sammy Davis, Jr.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

3. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?
(a) To study French culture.
(b) To escape the racial prejudice of America.
(c) To live with a French family.
(d) To escape the racial prejudice of Africa.

4. Instead of discussing the past, what does Baldwin suggest the American Negro and Whites discuss while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) American politics.
(b) Musicians.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) French politics.

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. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?

2. According to Baldwin, what color is associated with evil?

3. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?

4. In the essay Equal in Paris, what city was Baldwin's new "friend" from?

5. The story of Carmen Jones deals with what type of people?

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