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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. What was the aim of the quartet groups like the Melodeers?
(a) To sing at churches.
(b) To travel to other parts of the country.
(c) To make a livelihood from music.
(d) To change Whites' views of Black music.

2. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?
(a) Ebony and Jet.
(b) Essence and Jet.
(c) Ebony and Essence.
(d) Ebony and Our World.

3. What biblical story does Baldwin say allows the Blacks to identify with Jews?
(a) God's Covenant with Abraham.
(b) Jesus' crucifixion.
(c) God's creation of Adam.
(d) Moses' deliverance from Egypt.

4. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?
(a) To show the every day life of a slave.
(b) To tell the true story of Uncle Tom.
(c) To prove slavery is wrong.
(d) To abolish slavery.

5. How is the Negro in America referred to in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) A gloomy mist.
(b) A series of mishaps.
(c) A series of shadows.
(d) A mass of darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Melodeers room while in Atlanta?

2. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?

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

4. What's the name of Baldwin's brother who relayed his experience with the Melodeers in Atlanta?

5. What emotion of Baldwin's father does he describe as "never to be trusted"?

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