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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?
(a) The American past that is disregarded in Europe.
(b) The African past that is disregarded in Europe.
(c) The European present.
(d) The European future.

2. What technique did Baldwin say he used in arguments with his father?
(a) Name calling.
(b) Silence.
(c) Combative behavior.
(d) Violence.

3. What phenomenon does Baldwin address in the essay entitled, A Question of Identity?
(a) Americans who fought in the war.
(b) Americans who chose to remain in Paris after the war.
(c) African Americans who leave America to write about race in America.
(d) Americans who chose to remain in America after the war.

4. Which group of Swiss villagers sometimes extend grave overtures of friendship to Baldwin?
(a) Children.
(b) Teenage Girls.
(c) Women.
(d) Senior Citizens.

5. According to Baldwin, what discovery brings an end to the alienation of the American student in Paris?
(a) Discovering American culture.
(b) Discovering European culture.
(c) Discovering America from the vantage point of Europe.
(d) Discovering America from the vantage point of the French African.

6. According to Baldwin, which students are successfully entrenched in Parisian lifestyle?
(a) Those that use their GI funding to study at Parisian university.
(b) Those that know American history.
(c) Those that marry French women.
(d) Those that take time to study the culture and People of Paris.

7. What happened on the same day that Baldwin's father died?
(a) The ninth child was born.
(b) The seventh child was born.
(c) The eighth child was born.
(d) The tenth child was born.

8. Whose records did Baldwin's father forbid his children to play?
(a) The Golden Gate Quartet.
(b) The Melodeers.
(c) Louis Armstrong.
(d) James Brown.

9. According to Baldwin, which of the following can the black man call home?
(a) Africa.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Nowhere.

10. Where was Baldwin's father born?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Harlem.

11. In total, how many days did Baldwin spend in the French prison system?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

12. How far was the Fresnes prison from Paris?
(a) Twelve Kilometers.
(b) Fourteen Kilometers.
(c) Sixteen Kilometers.
(d) Ten Kilometers.

13. What did Baldwin drink before his father's funeral?
(a) Milk.
(b) Tea.
(c) Gin.
(d) Whiskey.

14. What legislation made it possible for American soldiers to pay for their education in Paris after the war?
(a) The Veterans Educational Achievement Act.
(b) The Foreign Education Bill.
(c) G.I. Bill.
(d) The Soldier's Education Act.

15. How did the French see Baldwin in the commissariat?
(a) As an American Negro.
(b) As a French man.
(c) As an American.
(d) As a French Negro.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Baldwin go to the Swiss village?

2. What term does Baldwin use to describe the lives of American student in Paris in the 1950s?

3. In the essay Equal in Paris, what city was Baldwin's new "friend" from?

4. According to Baldwin, which one of the following performers had the ability to be a successful performer in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?

5. In the chapter entitled A Question of Identity, what does Baldwin describe as a flimsy structure, beneath contempt, designed by and for all the other people?

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