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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Many Thousands Gone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.
(b) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.
(c) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(d) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.

2. Why does Baldwin assert that White people contribute to the perpetuation of the stereotypical characters such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom?
(a) Because Whites want to believe the happy, subservient personas of Black people
(b) Because Whites want to believe that Black people are unhappy with their lives.
(c) Because Whites like being entertained by the stereotypical figures of Black Americans.
(d) Because African Americans love to imitate these types of stereotypical characters.

3. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?
(a) Negative images in the media.
(b) Slum.
(c) Injustices.
(d) Remote Violence.

4. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?
(a) To tell the true story of Uncle Tom.
(b) To prove slavery is wrong.
(c) To abolish slavery.
(d) To show the every day life of a slave.

5. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:
(a) A Novel.
(b) A Short Story.
(c) A Pamphlet.
(d) A Play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Protest novels are said to resemble:

2. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?

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

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

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

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