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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?
(a) He treats the Negro like a slave.
(b) He has taught the Negro to be inferior.
(c) He has divided the Jews and Negroes.
(d) He has divided Negro men and women.

4. What stereotypical trait is shared by the female and male leads in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Fine hair.
(b) Light colored skin.
(c) Dark colored skin.
(d) Blue eyes.

5. According to Baldwin, both the Negro and the Jew are characterized as:
(a) Jobless.
(b) Helpless.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had the money to pay for the Melodeers' accommodations in Atlanta?

2. Who is the author of Native Son?

3. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. The story of Carmen Jones deals with what type of people?

5. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?

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