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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what does the black man in American struggle to find?
(a) His real family.
(b) His own identity.
(c) His former slave master.
(d) His childhood memories.

2. How does Baldwin describe the entertainment industry in Paris for American performers in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Easy.
(d) Prosperous.

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

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

5. Where did Baldwin go after his father's funeral to celebrate his birthday?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Downtown.
(d) Atlantic City.

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

7. Why does Baldwin assume that the Swiss village is not Protestant?
(a) The Catholic churches are open more often.
(b) The synagogue are open more often.
(c) There are no Protestant churches.
(d) The Swiss villagers have Buddhist temples in their homes.

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

9. What other event shared the same date as the funeral of Baldwin's father?
(a) Baldwin's 19th birthday.
(b) Baldwin's 17th birthday.
(c) Baldwin's 20th birthday.
(d) Baldwin's 18th birthday.

10. What did Baldwin's first jail cell resemble?
(a) A bird's nest.
(b) A chicken coop.
(c) A prison cell.
(d) An American prison.

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

12. What emotion of Baldwin's father does he describe as "never to be trusted"?
(a) His father's love.
(b) His father's sadness.
(c) His father's temper.
(d) His father's kindness.

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

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

15. Instead of discussing the past, what does Baldwin suggest the American Negro and Whites discuss while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) French politics.
(b) The Eiffel Tower.
(c) Musicians.
(d) American politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Baldwin drink before his father's funeral?

2. What phenomenon does Baldwin address in the essay entitled, A Question of Identity?

3. What university were American soldiers attending in Paris?

4. What do the children call Baldwin when he first arrives in the Swiss village?

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

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