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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. What novel does Baldwin compare Uncle Tom's Cabin to?
(a) Native Son.
(b) Little Women.
(c) Black Boy.
(d) Othello.

2. What negative stereotype does the character Carmen Jones perpetuate?
(a) The stereotype of light skinned Negroes being smarter than dark skinned Negroes.
(b) The stereotype of rampant sexuality.
(c) The stereotype of subservient Negro women.
(d) The stereotype of Negro women being the desire of white men's lust.

3. Of all Americans, who does Baldwin say Negroes distrust the most?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Jews.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Politicians.

4. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Blacks?
(a) Social Literature.
(b) Change Literature.
(c) Protest Literature.
(d) Problem Literature.

5. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?
(a) Churches.
(b) Homes.
(c) Prisons.
(d) Grocery Stores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?

2. What stereotypical trait do the immoral and evil characters share in the film Carmen Jones?

3. Why does Baldwin think it is safe for the film Carmen Jones to utilize an all-Negro cast?

4. What biblical story does Baldwin say allows the Blacks to identify with Jews?

5. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Amsterdam Star-News.

2. Why does Baldwin not praise the movie Carmen Jones and its cast for breaking racial barriers?

3. In the essay entitled Everybody's Protest Novel, why does Baldwin use the first person narrative perspective?

4. What roles does religion play in the life of the Negro?

5. Why did many of the Americans that chose to study in Paris after the war, return to the United States?

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

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

8. What is the main difference between the American Negro and the French Negro?

9. Why doesn't Baldwin get upset when the children in the Swiss Village call him Neger on the streets?

10. How does Baldwin escape prosecution in Paris?

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