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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stranger in the Village.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe the housing of all students living in the Latin Quarter?
(a) Hotels with classic architecture.
(b) Dingy hotels.
(c) Medival-looking hotels.
(d) Ageless, sinister-looking hotels.

2. What has made some changes in the face of the Negro?
(a) Age.
(b) History.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Time.

3. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?
(a) Life in America moves faster.
(b) People in America are indifferent to what is going on in other parts of the world.
(c) Life in America moves at the same pace as other places in the world.
(d) Life in America moves slower.

4. Where did Baldwin live while in Paris?
(a) A rented apartment.
(b) The home of French friends.
(c) French motels.
(d) French hotels.

5. What negative stereotype does the character Carmen Jones perpetuate?
(a) The stereotype of light skinned Negroes being smarter than dark skinned Negroes.
(b) The stereotype of subservient Negro women.
(c) The stereotype of rampant sexuality.
(d) The stereotype of Negro women being the desire of white men's lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?

2. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?

3. Who traveled with Baldwin to visit his dying father on Long Island?

4. How far was the Fresnes prison from Paris?

5. How does Baldwin describe the lives of the nonperforming Negroes in Paris as compared to the lives of Negro entertainers in the 1940s and 50s?

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