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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Question of Identity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Whites?
(a) Social Literature.
(b) Protest Literature.
(c) Problem Literature.
(d) Change Literature.

2. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?
(a) Essence and Jet.
(b) Ebony and Our World.
(c) Ebony and Essence.
(d) Ebony and Jet.

3. Whose records did Baldwin's father forbid his children to play?
(a) James Brown.
(b) The Melodeers.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) The Golden Gate Quartet.

4. When was Baldwin's father born?
(a) During slavery.
(b) It is unknown.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1889.

5. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?
(a) Joe Adams.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Sidney Poitier.
(d) Sammy Davis, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?

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

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

4. Where is Harlem located?

5. According to Baldwin, which one of the following performers had the ability to be a successful performer in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?

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