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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. In the essay Equal in Paris, what are we told lead police to know that one of the Parisian hotels had their property stolen?
(a) The color of the sheets.
(b) The hotel monogram on the sheets.
(c) Baldwin's friend told the police they were stolen.
(d) A witness called the police.

2. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
(a) The impression it leaves about the realities of Negro life.
(b) The questions it leaves about the relationship between Whites and Negroes.
(c) The changes it suggests about the lives of Negroes.
(d) The questions it leaves in the mind relate more to inferior life of Americans.

3. According to Baldwin, if black faces cannot be made white then what other way can they be changed in order to be less offensive to white society?
(a) White.
(b) Light.
(c) Blank.
(d) Clear.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Hollywood studio produced the film Carmen Jones?

3. What prison was Baldwin's friend sent to that he was forbidden to enter?

4. According to Baldwin, which students are successfully entrenched in Parisian lifestyle?

5. What performer did Baldwin believe would be remembered for their performance as the embattled solider in Broadway's Deep Are the Roots?

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