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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Baldwin criticize the cleanliness of the Carmen Jones movie set?
(a) Because they do not show the intermingling of working class Negroes and Whites.
(b) Because they do not accurately portray the environments of the working class Negroes characterized in the movie.
(c) Because it does not accurately portray the American ghetto.
(d) Because they do not accurately portray the working-class.

3. According to Baldwin, if black faces cannot be made white then what other way can they be changed in order to be less offensive to white society?
(a) Blank.
(b) Light.
(c) Clear.
(d) White.

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

5. What stereotypical trait do the immoral and evil characters share in the film Carmen Jones?
(a) Dark colored skin.
(b) Overweight.
(c) Brown eyes.
(d) Coarse hair.

6. What has made some changes in the face of the Negro?
(a) History.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Age.
(d) Time.

7. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?
(a) To tell the true story of Uncle Tom.
(b) To abolish slavery.
(c) To prove slavery is wrong.
(d) To show the every day life of a slave.

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

9. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?
(a) Our passion for clarity.
(b) Our passion for change.
(c) Our passion for knowledge.
(d) Our passion for categorization.

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

11. Since Negroes have been in this country, Baldwin writes that their one devastating gain was:
(a) Colonization.
(b) Emancipation.
(c) Abolition.
(d) Slavery.

12. According to Baldwin, what color are the robes of the saved?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

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

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

15. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Whites?
(a) Change Literature.
(b) Social Literature.
(c) Protest Literature.
(d) Problem Literature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following artists was mentioned in the Harlem Ghetto chapter as having a column in the People's Voice?

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. Where did the Melodeers ultimately end up rehearsing for their performances in Atlanta?

5. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Blacks?

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