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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Clear.
(b) Blank.
(c) Light.
(d) White.

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

3. Where did the Melodeers room while in Atlanta?
(a) YWCA.
(b) a Negro motel.
(c) The homes of Progressive Party members.
(d) YMCA.

4. Where is Atlanta located?
(a) New York.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Georgia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The story of Carmen Jones deals with what type of people?

2. Who played the villainous second male lead in Carmen Jones?

3. How is history and the progress of the Negro described in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

4. Which of the following is not a characteristic given to history by Baldwin?

5. Why does Baldwin insist that the operatic songs performed by the cast in the film Carmen Jones have no connection to Negro life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe the Richard Wright's book, Native Son?

2. According to Baldwin, how do the Europeans react to the American Negro's presence in Paris?

3. How are Ebony and Our World Magazines different?

4. Why has Baldwin written extensively about the Negro press?

5. Why is the American Negro envious of the French African?

6. How does Baldwin describe the social climate that existed when Richard Wright was writing Native Son?

7. What is the purpose of the book Notes of a Native Son?

8. What are some of the limitations that make it hard for Baldwin to tolerate the French prison system?

9. How does Baldwin use Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

10. How did Baldwin receive word about the journey to Atlanta?

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