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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Harlem Ghetto.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?
(a) Life in America moves faster.
(b) Life in America moves at the same pace as other places in the world.
(c) People in America are indifferent to what is going on in other parts of the world.
(d) Life in America moves slower.

2. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?
(a) Every weapon possible.
(b) Religion.
(c) Knowledge of American society.
(d) American History.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What biblical story does Baldwin say allows the Blacks to identify with Jews?

2. According to Baldwin, who are the three most important characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

4. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

5. According to Baldwin, how does the book Native Son obliterate the good will of the people as a whole?

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