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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. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?
(a) He stands in fear of creation.
(b) He stands in fear of God.
(c) He stands in fear of man.
(d) He stands in fear of beast.

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) Ebony and Jet.
(b) Essence and Jet.
(c) Ebony and Essence.
(d) Ebony and Our World.

3. How does Baldwin describe the entertainment industry in Paris for American performers in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Prosperous.
(b) Easy.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Complicated.

4. What phenomenon does Baldwin address in the essay entitled, A Question of Identity?
(a) Americans who chose to remain in Paris after the war.
(b) Americans who chose to remain in America after the war.
(c) African Americans who leave America to write about race in America.
(d) Americans who fought in the war.

5. 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) White people do not want to see an interracial cast.
(c) There are no white people to which the Negroes may be compared.
(d) The Negroes would see a movie with an all-Negro cast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?

2. What war is discussed in the chapter entitled A Question of Identity?

3. Why did Baldwin think the Negro vote was so easily bought and sold in the 1940s?

4. How has Harlem changed since Baldwin's parents' lifetime?

5. Instead of discussing the past, what does Baldwin suggest the American Negro and Whites discuss while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?

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