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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the only white people that visited Baldwin's childhood home?
(a) Bill Collectors and police officers.
(b) Welfare workers and bill collectors.
(c) Welfare workers and teachers.
(d) Welfare workers and police officers.

2. What action performed by the prison guards did Baldwin think demoralized him as a human being?
(a) Branding each prisoner with their inmate number.
(b) Removal of one's shoelace and belts.
(c) Deliberately not feeding the inmates.
(d) Restriction of one's religious beliefs.

3. Where did Baldwin and his white friend from New York go on Baldwin's last night in New Jersey?
(a) Atlantic City, NJ.
(b) To the casino.
(c) To the movies and to have drinks.
(d) To downtown New York City.

4. What gift did Baldwin's attorney friend bring him in prison?
(a) Clean bed sheets .
(b) A bottle of French wine.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Lucky Strike Cigarettes.

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

6. In the essay Equal in Paris, what city was Baldwin's new "friend" from?
(a) New York City.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) New Jersey.

7. What term does Baldwin use to describe the lives of American student in Paris in the 1950s?
(a) Social Butterflies.
(b) Social Stability.
(c) Social Limbo.
(d) Social Congruence.

8. What is the name of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?
(a) Sorbonne cafe.
(b) Chez Inez.
(c) Chez Paris.
(d) Le Paris cafe.

9. What occurred a few hours after the funeral of Baldwin's father?
(a) A black man was beat up by the police.
(b) A race riot.
(c) A Progressive Party rally.
(d) Baldwin's brother passed away.

10. What tool(s) does Baldwin take with him to the Swiss village?
(a) Printing Press.
(b) Books.
(c) Typewriter.
(d) Pens and Pencils.

11. In the essay Equal in Paris, what are we told lead police to know that one of the Parisian hotels had their property stolen?
(a) The hotel monogram on the sheets.
(b) The color of the sheets.
(c) Baldwin's friend told the police they were stolen.
(d) A witness called the police.

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

13. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of sadness.
(b) A sense of displacement.
(c) A sense of change.
(d) A sense of overwhelming understanding.

14. Which group did Baldwin mention as living together in groups - in the same neighborhoods and student hotels - while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) The French African.
(b) American Negroes.
(c) White Americans.
(d) Black soldiers.

15. What do the Swiss Villagers occasionally do on Sundays?
(a) Go to the movies.
(b) Wash dirty laundry.
(c) Cook dinner.
(d) Ski.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the French see Baldwin in the commissariat?

2. How does Baldwin describe the housing of all students living in the Latin Quarter?

3. What is the population of the town at the foot of the mountain, where many of the Swiss villagers shop and go to the movies?

4. How many hours does it take to get from Milan to the Swiss Village?

5. What did Baldwin claim that the soldiers who studied in Paris had in common with the rest of the soliders that fought in the war?

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