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

2. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Lena Horne.
(b) Pearl Bailey.
(c) Carmen Jones.
(d) Dorothy Dandridge.

3. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?
(a) The music pieces were sung by middle class black people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(b) The music pieces were sung by white men and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(c) The music pieces were sung in Italian and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(d) The music pieces were sung by white people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.

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) Black men are inferior to white men.
(b) The Negro is a man without a homeland.
(c) Blacks need to make themselves less offensive.
(d) Black is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are protest novels?

4. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?

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

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