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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of accommodations were promised to the Melodeers prior to leaving for Atlanta?
(a) Dormitory style accommodations.
(b) Four to a room.
(c) One to a room.
(d) Two to a room.

4. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?
(a) He stands in fear of creation.
(b) He stands in fear of God.
(c) He stands in fear of beast.
(d) He stands in fear of man.

5. Who played the lead male role in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Sammy Davis, Jr.
(b) Joe Adams.
(c) Sidney Poitier.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

6. What does Baldwin say is the hatred symbol of Harlem?
(a) The Mulatto.
(b) The Jew.
(c) The Negro.
(d) The Black man.

7. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?
(a) Essence and Jet.
(b) Ebony and Jet.
(c) Ebony and Essence.
(d) Ebony and Our World.

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

9. Who is the author of Native Son?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

10. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?
(a) The loss of African American identity.
(b) The loss of our own identity.
(c) The loss of Negroes to slavery.
(d) The loss of racial identity.

11. What does Baldwin suggest the presupposition of the two novels Kingsblood Royal and If He Hollers Let Him Go are in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) Blacks need to make themselves less offensive.
(b) Black is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.
(c) Black men are inferior to white men.
(d) The Negro is a man without a homeland.

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

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

14. What did the parents of the Melodeers oppose prior to their departure for Atlanta?
(a) The trip to Atlanta.
(b) Only one chaperone for the group.
(c) An extra tour.
(d) Mr. Wades as the group's manager and guardian .

15. How has Harlem changed since Baldwin's parents' lifetime?
(a) Not much.
(b) A great deal.
(c) Somewhat in the Jewish occupied areas.
(d) Not at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, both the Negro and the Jew are characterized as:

2. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?

3. Baldwin believes that the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin should have been:

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

5. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?

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