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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Harlem located?
(a) New York.
(b) California.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New Jersey.

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

3. According to Baldwin, what color is associated with evil?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

4. Who was the presidential candidate representing the Progressive Party at the time Baldwin wrote this essay?
(a) Henry Wallace.
(b) James Jordan.
(c) Clarence Warde.
(d) Paul Roberson.

5. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Pearl Bailey.
(b) Carmen Jones.
(c) Dorothy Dandridge.
(d) Lena Horne.

6. What does Baldwin claim Jews and Negroes must use in order to be accepted in the 1940s and 1950s?
(a) Religion.
(b) Knowledge of American society.
(c) American History.
(d) Every weapon possible.

7. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:
(a) A Short Story.
(b) A Pamphlet.
(c) A Play.
(d) A Novel.

8. How was the 1955 production of Carmen Jones different than previous productions?
(a) It had an all-white cast.
(b) It had an all-Negro cast.
(c) It had an all-African cast.
(d) It had an interracial cast.

9. How does Baldwin describe the relationship between the Negroes and the Jews in Harlem?
(a) Amicable.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Contentious.
(d) Unwanted.

10. What was the political affiliation of the Amsterdam Star-News?
(a) Republican.
(b) Independent.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Progressive.

11. What was the name of the establishment where the Melodeers ate their meals while in Atlanta?
(a) Red's Diner.
(b) Fraziers' Café.
(c) Fraziers' Diner.
(d) Hunter Street Café.

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

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

14. What is not one of the two legends of the "white Gentile" as described by Baldwin?
(a) He has divided Negro men and women.
(b) He has taught the Negro to be inferior.
(c) He has divided the Jews and Negroes.
(d) He treats the Negro like a slave.

15. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?
(a) The music pieces were sung in Italian and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(b) The music pieces were sung by white men and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(c) The music pieces were sung by white people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(d) The music pieces were sung by middle class black people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?

2. According to Baldwin, what color are the robes of the saved?

3. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?

4. What newspaper rivaled the Amsterdam Star-News in the 1940s?

5. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

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