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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?
(a) Our passion for change.
(b) Our passion for knowledge.
(c) Our passion for clarity.
(d) Our passion for categorization.

2. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to South America.
(b) Missionaries to America.
(c) Missionaries to India.
(d) Missionaries to Africa.

3. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?
(a) To bring the ideals of socialism to the oppressed.
(b) To bring Christianity to the oppressed.
(c) To bring greater charity to the oppressed.
(d) To bring greater freedom to the oppressed.

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

5. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?
(a) The loss of our own identity.
(b) The loss of African American identity.
(c) The loss of Negroes to slavery.
(d) The loss of racial identity.

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, why has the face of the Negro changed over time?

3. What two stereotypical figures does the author portray as portraits of the Negro in America with laudatory and heinous qualities?

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

5. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?

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