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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 is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Social.
(b) Sufficient.
(c) Anti-Social.
(d) Non-existent.

2. What genre of film is the movie Carmen Jones?
(a) Horror.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Drama .
(d) Opera.

3. What is the name of the first church that Baldwin can remember attending with his family as a child?
(a) First Baptist Church.
(b) Abyssinia Baptist Church.
(c) Harlem United Church.
(d) 138th Street Baptist Church.

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

5. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?
(a) The music pieces were sung in Italian and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(b) The music pieces were sung by white men and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(c) The music pieces were sung by white people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(d) The music pieces were sung by middle class black people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where can the true raison d'être of the Negro press be found?

3. What impeded the Progressive Party's progression in Harlem during the 1940s?

4. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?

5. Where did Baldwin go after his father's funeral to celebrate his birthday?

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