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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Journey to Atlanta.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the political affiliation of the Amsterdam Star-News?
(a) Independent.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democrat.

2. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?
(a) Homes.
(b) Churches.
(c) Grocery Stores.
(d) Prisons.

3. Where did the Melodeers room while in Atlanta?
(a) YMCA.
(b) YWCA.
(c) a Negro motel.
(d) The homes of Progressive Party members.

4. What does Baldwin say is the hatred symbol of Harlem?
(a) The Negro.
(b) The Jew.
(c) The Mulatto.
(d) The Black man.

5. 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) American History.
(d) Knowledge of American society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?

2. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?

3. Of all Americans, who does Baldwin say Negroes distrust the most?

4. Although it is known that African Americans are not biologically or mentally inferior, what occurred during the World War II?

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

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