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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) Social.
(b) Anti-Social.
(c) Sufficient.
(d) Non-existent.

2. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?
(a) Second person narrative.
(b) First person narrative.
(c) Third person narrative.
(d) First person limited narrative.

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

4. What stereotypical trait do the immoral and evil characters share in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Dark colored skin.
(b) Coarse hair.
(c) Overweight.
(d) Brown eyes.

5. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:
(a) A Pamphlet.
(b) A Novel.
(c) A Play.
(d) A Short Story.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?

2. How does Baldwin describe a "new society" in the book, Notes of a Native Son?

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

4. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?

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

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