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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 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. Instead of discussing the past, what does Baldwin suggest the American Negro and Whites discuss while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) The Eiffel Tower.
(b) Musicians.
(c) American politics.
(d) French politics.

3. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?
(a) Every weapon possible.
(b) Knowledge of American society.
(c) Religion.
(d) American History.

4. According to Baldwin, how does the book Native Son obliterate the good will of the people as a whole?
(a) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story of hatred and the idea that Negroes can only become validated if they become more like white men.
(b) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that stereotypical images share laudatory and heinous qualities with the best possible traits coming to the surface for white consumption.
(c) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that white men only like subservient black men and women.
(d) The good will of the people is obliterated by the story that Negroes are always angry at white men.

5. What color clothing did Baldwin say he did not have to wear to his father's funeral?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?

2. What occurred a few hours after the funeral of Baldwin's father?

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

4. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?

5. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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