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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Equal in Paris.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Baldwin, how does the book Native Son obliterate the good will of the people as a whole?
(a) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story of hatred and the idea that Negroes can only become validated if they become more like white men.
(b) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that white men only like subservient black men and women.
(c) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that Negroes are always angry at white men.
(d) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that stereotypical images share laudatory and heinous qualities with the best possible traits coming to the surface for white consumption.
2. In what year did Baldwin's father die?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1942.
3. Who was the representative of the Progressive Party in Atlanta?
(a) Mrs. Branson Price.
(b) Mr. Henry Wallace.
(c) Mrs. Dorothy Dandridge.
(d) Mrs. Frank Johnson.
4. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of overwhelming understanding.
(b) A sense of sadness.
(c) A sense of displacement.
(d) A sense of change.
5. How is the story of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) The story of Americans.
(b) The story of Native Americans.
(c) The story of African Americans.
(d) The story of the original American settlers.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Whites?
2. According to Baldwin, what was the legend of Paris?
3. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?
4. In the chapter entitled A Question of Identity, what does Baldwin describe as a flimsy structure, beneath contempt, designed by and for all the other people?
5. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?
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