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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the language and dialect in the film Carmen Jones considered an insult on black people?
(a) Because the characters speak like enslaved Africans.
(b) Because the characters speak like stereotypical Negroes.
(c) Because the characters speak like northern born Negroes.
(d) Because the characters speak like antebellum Negroes adopting the patterns language of their masters.

2. What was the aim of the quartet groups like the Melodeers?
(a) To travel to other parts of the country.
(b) To sing at churches.
(c) To make a livelihood from music.
(d) To change Whites' views of Black music.

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

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

5. 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.

6. What biblical story does Baldwin say allows the Blacks to identify with Jews?
(a) God's Covenant with Abraham.
(b) Jesus' crucifixion.
(c) God's creation of Adam.
(d) Moses' deliverance from Egypt.

7. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Social.
(b) Anti-Social.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Sufficient.

8. Why does Baldwin criticize the book Native Son?
(a) The book negates the role of the black woman in society.
(b) The book describes the life of a Negro man as if he was a White man.
(c) The book dehumanizes Negro women and makes the Negro man superior to the Negro woman.
(d) The book negates the whole race and converts the Negro man's pride into anger.

9. Where did the Melodeers room while in Atlanta?
(a) The homes of Progressive Party members.
(b) YWCA.
(c) YMCA.
(d) a Negro motel.

10. How many of Baldwin's brothers were in the quartet?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

11. According to Baldwin, why has the face of the Negro changed over time?
(a) Because of the portrayal of Uncle Tom.
(b) Because of the white man's need for making Negroes as white as possible in order to interact with them.
(c) Because of the white man's need for making Negroes cook and clean the white man's home.
(d) Because African Americans refuted the stereotypical images Aunt Jemima.

12. How does Baldwin describe a "new society" in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) One in which Negros and Whites work together.
(b) One in which Negros resume their slave duties.
(c) One in which inequalities will disappear and vengeance will be exacted.
(d) One in which inequalities change because of protests.

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

14. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) George S. Schuyler.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

15. Although it is known that African Americans are not biologically or mentally inferior, what occurred during the World War II?
(a) The troops were segregated.
(b) The troops were integrated.
(c) African Americans were not allowed to fight.
(d) The troops were evaluated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe the American Ideal?

2. Where can the true raison d'être of the Negro press be found?

3. How was the 1955 production of Carmen Jones different than previous productions?

4. Where is Atlanta located?

5. What does Baldwin say is the hatred symbol of Georgia?

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