![]() |
Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the parents of the Melodeers oppose prior to their departure for Atlanta?
(a) The trip to Atlanta.
(b) An extra tour.
(c) Mr. Wades as the group's manager and guardian .
(d) Only one chaperone for the group.
2. Who was the representative of the Progressive Party in Atlanta?
(a) Mrs. Dorothy Dandridge.
(b) Mr. Henry Wallace.
(c) Mrs. Frank Johnson.
(d) Mrs. Branson Price.
3. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
(a) The changes it suggests about the lives of Negroes.
(b) The questions it leaves about the relationship between Whites and Negroes.
(c) The questions it leaves in the mind relate more to inferior life of Americans.
(d) The impression it leaves about the realities of Negro life.
4. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to Africa.
(b) Missionaries to India.
(c) Missionaries to America.
(d) Missionaries to South America.
5. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Racial prejudice.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Self-worth.
(d) Self-righteousness.
6. How does Baldwin describe the American Ideal?
(a) Everyone should be as alike as possible.
(b) Everyone should reconnect to American history.
(c) Everyone should connect to their cultural identity.
(d) Everyone should be as different as possible.
7. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?
(a) The loss of Negroes to slavery.
(b) The loss of racial identity.
(c) The loss of African American identity.
(d) The loss of our own identity.
8. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?
(a) To bring greater freedom to the oppressed.
(b) To bring greater charity to the oppressed.
(c) To bring the ideals of socialism to the oppressed.
(d) To bring Christianity to the oppressed.
9. Which of the following artists was mentioned in the Harlem Ghetto chapter as having a column in the People's Voice?
(a) Joe Adams.
(b) Lena Horne.
(c) Harry Belafonte.
(d) Dorothy Dandridge.
10. According to Baldwin, what color are the robes of the saved?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.
11. 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.
12. Where can the true raison d'ĂȘtre of the Negro press be found?
(a) The front pages of the Negro newspapers.
(b) Lifestyle sections of the Black magazines.
(c) Ebony magazine.
(d) Letters to the editor.
13. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Grocery Stores.
(c) Homes.
(d) Churches.
14. How long did the quartet's trip to Atlanta last?
(a) 20 days.
(b) 14 days.
(c) 16 days.
(d) 18 days.
15. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?
(a) Sidney Poitier.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Sammy Davis, Jr.
(d) Joe Adams.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?
2. What was the name of the establishment where the Melodeers ate their meals while in Atlanta?
3. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?
4. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?
5. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?
This section contains 578 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |