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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Sufficient.
(b) Social.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Anti-Social.

2. Where is Harlem located?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New Jersey.

3. Whose records did Baldwin's father forbid his children to play?
(a) The Melodeers.
(b) Louis Armstrong.
(c) The Golden Gate Quartet.
(d) James Brown.

4. Of all Americans, who does Baldwin say Negroes distrust the most?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Lawyers.

5. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?
(a) Ebony and Essence.
(b) Essence and Jet.
(c) Ebony and Our World.
(d) Ebony and Jet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?

2. What is the name of the first church that Baldwin can remember attending with his family as a child?

3. In what year was the all-Black production of Carmen Jones released?

4. Why does Baldwin assert that White people contribute to the perpetuation of the stereotypical characters such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom?

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

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