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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 type of accommodations were promised to the Melodeers prior to leaving for Atlanta?
(a) One to a room.
(b) Four to a room.
(c) Dormitory style accommodations.
(d) Two to a room.

2. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
(a) The questions it leaves about the relationship between Whites and Negroes.
(b) The questions it leaves in the mind relate more to inferior life of Americans.
(c) The impression it leaves about the realities of Negro life.
(d) The changes it suggests about the lives of Negroes.

3. What performer did Baldwin believe would be remembered for their performance as the embattled solider in Broadway's Deep Are the Roots?
(a) Otto Preminger.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Gordon Heath.
(d) Joe Adams.

4. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Racial prejudice.
(b) Self-righteousness.
(c) Self-worth.
(d) Apartheid.

5. Approximately how many American Negroes were living in Paris during the 1950s?
(a) 500.
(b) 400.
(c) 450.
(d) 600.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are protest novels?

2. What stereotypical trait is shared by the female and male leads in the film Carmen Jones?

3. Since Negroes have been in this country, Baldwin writes that their one devastating gain was:

4. What newspaper rivaled the Amsterdam Star-News in the 1940s?

5. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?

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