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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?
(a) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and receives their U.S. citizenship from the government.
(b) At the point where the individual reaches Ellis Island in New York.
(c) At the point that the person enters the country and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(d) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and adopts the venture of the adopted land.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How was the 1955 production of Carmen Jones different than previous productions?

4. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?

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

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