View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who offered to contact someone outside of the prison on behalf of Baldwin?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A patent lawyer.
(c) A prison guard.
(d) A released prisoner.

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

4. According to Baldwin, how did an American Negro view another American Negro in Paris during the 1940s and 50s?
(a) A source of rage.
(b) A source of knowledge.
(c) A source of joy.
(d) A source of sadness.

5. According to Baldwin, who were the only people able to maintain a useful and unquestioned friendship with Negroes during the 1940s and 50s in Paris?
(a) White Americans.
(b) The French.
(c) Negro entertainers.
(d) Negro soliders.

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

7. According to Baldwin, what is afforded to American students in Paris?
(a) Irresponsibility.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Equality.

8. What is Baldwin arrested for while in Paris?
(a) Stealing money from a hotel.
(b) Writing American propaganda on a hotel wall.
(c) The theft of hotel soaps and lotions.
(d) The theft of a hotel sheet.

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

10. Who visits Baldwin while he is in prison with the promise of sending someone to represent him at his trial?
(a) A friend from New York City.
(b) A released prisoner.
(c) A prison guard.
(d) An American patent attorney.

11. Who is the owner of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?
(a) Chester Bomar Himes.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Inez Cavanaugh.
(d) Otto Preminger.

12. 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) Black soldiers.
(b) The French African.
(c) White Americans.
(d) American Negroes.

13. 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) Baldwin's friend told the police they were stolen.
(b) A witness called the police.
(c) The hotel monogram on the sheets.
(d) The color of the sheets.

14. 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?
(a) They both studied French culture.
(b) They both were Black.
(c) They both spoke French.
(d) They both wore uniforms.

15. What is one way that Baldwin claims a person can become entrenched in the Parisian lifestyle?
(a) Eating a French cafes.
(b) Living with a French Family.
(c) Marrying a French citizen.
(d) Visiting the American embassy in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many people live in the Swiss village that Baldwin visits?

2. Who traveled with Baldwin to visit his dying father on Long Island?

3. What war is discussed in the chapter entitled A Question of Identity?

4. What difference does Baldwin suggest exists between soldiers that studied in Paris and those that did not?

5. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 610 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample