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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) George S. Schuyler.

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

4. What does Baldwin suggest the presupposition of the two novels Kingsblood Royal and If He Hollers Let Him Go are in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Blacks need to make themselves less offensive.
(b) Black men are inferior to white men.
(c) Black is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.
(d) The Negro is a man without a homeland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?

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

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

4. According to Baldwin, if black faces cannot be made white then what other way can they be changed in order to be less offensive to white society?

5. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?

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