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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. Who were the only white people that visited Baldwin's childhood home?
(a) Welfare workers and teachers.
(b) Bill Collectors and police officers.
(c) Welfare workers and police officers.
(d) Welfare workers and bill collectors.
2. Where can the true raison d'être of the Negro press be found?
(a) The front pages of the Negro newspapers.
(b) Lifestyle sections of the Black magazines.
(c) Letters to the editor.
(d) Ebony magazine.
3. 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) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Jospehine Baker.
(c) Dorothy Dandridge.
(d) Duke Ellington.
4. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of displacement.
(b) A sense of change.
(c) A sense of sadness.
(d) A sense of overwhelming understanding.
5. Why does Baldwin assert that White people contribute to the perpetuation of the stereotypical characters such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom?
(a) Because Whites like being entertained by the stereotypical figures of Black Americans.
(b) Because African Americans love to imitate these types of stereotypical characters.
(c) Because Whites want to believe the happy, subservient personas of Black people
(d) Because Whites want to believe that Black people are unhappy with their lives.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?
2. According to Baldwin, who were the only people able to maintain a useful and unquestioned friendship with Negroes during the 1940s and 50s in Paris?
3. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?
4. What stereotypical trait do the immoral and evil characters share in the film Carmen Jones?
5. How does Baldwin describe the American Ideal?
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