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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 stereotypical trait is shared by the female and male leads in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Light colored skin.
(b) Dark colored skin.
(c) Blue eyes.
(d) Fine hair.

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

3. What issue is the American constantly confronted with in Paris?
(a) Identity.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Colonization.
(d) Racism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What legislation made it possible for American soldiers to pay for their education in Paris after the war?

2. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?

3. Where is Harlem located?

4. Why does Baldwin assert that White people contribute to the perpetuation of the stereotypical characters such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Tom?

5. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?

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