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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 long had Baldwin been gone from home when his father passed away?
(a) A little over a year.
(b) Less than a year.
(c) One year.
(d) More than 2 years.

2. According to Baldwin, which one of the following performers had the ability to be a successful performer in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Duke Ellington.
(b) Jospehine Baker.
(c) Harry Belafonte.
(d) Dorothy Dandridge.

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

4. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) They are divided by society.
(b) They are separated by common law.
(c) They are bound together within the same society.
(d) They are both are oppressed.

5. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of change.
(b) A sense of displacement.
(c) A sense of sadness.
(d) A sense of overwhelming understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?

2. Where is Atlanta located?

3. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?

4. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?

5. According to Baldwin, both the Negro and the Jew are characterized as:

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