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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 occurred a few hours after the funeral of Baldwin's father?
(a) A black man was beat up by the police.
(b) A race riot.
(c) Baldwin's brother passed away.
(d) A Progressive Party rally.

2. Who traveled with Baldwin to visit his dying father on Long Island?
(a) Baldwin's mother.
(b) Baldwin's friend.
(c) Baldwin's aunt.
(d) Baldwin's brother.

3. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.
(b) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.
(c) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(d) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.

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

5. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to America.
(b) Missionaries to Africa.
(c) Missionaries to India.
(d) Missionaries to South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color clothing did Baldwin say he did not have to wear to his father's funeral?

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

3. Whose records did Baldwin's father forbid his children to play?

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

5. Which group did Baldwin mention as living together in groups - in the same neighborhoods and student hotels - while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?

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