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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is the Negro in America referred to in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) A gloomy mist.
(b) A series of mishaps.
(c) A mass of darkness.
(d) A series of shadows.

3. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?
(a) Second person narrative.
(b) First person limited narrative.
(c) Third person narrative.
(d) First person narrative.

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. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Colonial.
(b) Slavery era.
(c) Civil rights era.
(d) Pre-civil rights era.

Short Answer Questions

1. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

2. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?

3. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?

4. What are protest novels?

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

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