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

2. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?
(a) MGM Studios.
(b) Walt Disney Studios.
(c) Twentieth Century Fox.
(d) Universal Studios.

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

4. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of overwhelming understanding.
(b) A sense of displacement.
(c) A sense of change.
(d) A sense of sadness.

5. Where is Atlanta located?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) New York.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the first church that Baldwin can remember attending with his family as a child?

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

3. What reason does Baldwin give for Blacks living in Paris?

4. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?

5. Why is the language and dialect in the film Carmen Jones considered an insult on black people?

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