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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. According to Baldwin, which students are successfully entrenched in Parisian lifestyle?
(a) Those that know American history.
(b) Those that marry French women.
(c) Those that use their GI funding to study at Parisian university.
(d) Those that take time to study the culture and People of Paris.

2. Why does Baldwin think it is safe for the film Carmen Jones to utilize an all-Negro cast?
(a) The all-Negro cast is less intimidating.
(b) The Negroes would see a movie with an all-Negro cast.
(c) There are no white people to which the Negroes may be compared.
(d) White people do not want to see an interracial cast.

3. Who was the presidential candidate representing the Progressive Party at the time Baldwin wrote this essay?
(a) Paul Roberson.
(b) Clarence Warde.
(c) Henry Wallace.
(d) James Jordan.

4. How does Baldwin describe the relationship between the Negroes and the Jews in Harlem?
(a) Contentious.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Unwanted.
(d) Amicable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

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

3. What impeded the Progressive Party's progression in Harlem during the 1940s?

4. What is one way that Baldwin claims a person can become entrenched in the Parisian lifestyle?

5. What term does Baldwin use to describe the lives of American student in Paris in the 1950s?

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