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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 are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Churches.
(c) Homes.
(d) Grocery Stores.

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

3. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?
(a) Carmen Jones.
(b) Native Son.
(c) Black No More.
(d) Uncle Tom's Cabin.

4. Why did Baldwin think the Negro vote was so easily bought and sold in the 1940s?
(a) Because Blacks did care about politics.
(b) Because Whites has a great influence in Black politics.
(c) Because Blacks were in need of money.
(d) Because it was treated with little respect.

5. According to Baldwin, who were the only people able to maintain a useful and unquestioned friendship with Negroes during the 1940s and 50s in Paris?
(a) The French.
(b) Negro soliders.
(c) Negro entertainers.
(d) White Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what does not exist among American students in Paris in the 1950s?

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

3. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?

4. How does Baldwin describe the entertainment industry in Paris for American performers in the 1940s and 50s?

5. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?

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