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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are protest novels?
(a) Fantasies connecting nowhere to reality.
(b) Reality connecting nowhere with fantasy.
(c) Racism connecting nowhere to social policy.
(d) Socialism connecting nowhere to racism.

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

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

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

7. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?
(a) The projects of the Bronx, NY.
(b) A Harlem apartment.
(c) A Chicago tenement.
(d) A YMCA in Atlanta, GA.

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

9. What point of view does Baldwin use in this essay?
(a) First person limited narrative.
(b) Third person narrative.
(c) Second person narrative.
(d) First person narrative.

10. 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) Black is a terrible color with which to be born into the world.
(b) Black men are inferior to white men.
(c) Blacks need to make themselves less offensive.
(d) The Negro is a man without a homeland.

11. 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 by white men and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(b) The music pieces were sung by middle class black people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(c) The music pieces were sung in Italian and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.
(d) The music pieces were sung by white people and dubbed over the black actor's lip syncs.

12. Where is Atlanta located?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) New York.
(d) Georgia.

13. Which of the following artists was mentioned in the Harlem Ghetto chapter as having a column in the People's Voice?
(a) Harry Belafonte.
(b) Joe Adams.
(c) Dorothy Dandridge.
(d) Lena Horne.

14. Who was the legal guardian and road manager of the Melodeers during their journey to Atlanta?
(a) Henry Wallace.
(b) Clarence Warde.
(c) Branson Price.
(d) Adam Jones.

15. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?
(a) Little Women.
(b) Native Son.
(c) Othello.
(d) Black Boy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?

3. How many of Baldwin's brothers were in the quartet?

4. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?

5. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?

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