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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 does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Blacks?
(a) Change Literature.
(b) Problem Literature.
(c) Protest Literature.
(d) Social Literature.

2. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Self-worth.
(c) Self-righteousness.
(d) Racial prejudice.

3. According to Baldwin, what color is associated with evil?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

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

5. What are protest novels?
(a) Fantasies connecting nowhere to reality.
(b) Reality connecting nowhere with fantasy.
(c) Racism connecting nowhere to social policy.
(d) Socialism connecting nowhere to racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?

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

3. Who is the author of Native Son?

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?

5. According to Baldwin, why has the face of the Negro changed over time?

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