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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. The story of Carmen Jones deals with what type of people?
(a) Immortal
(b) Moral.
(c) Amoral.
(d) Immortal.

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

3. Where did the Melodeers ultimately end up rehearsing for their performances in Atlanta?
(a) A Negro motel.
(b) YMCA.
(c) YWCA.
(d) A private home.

4. What genre of film is the movie Carmen Jones?
(a) Opera.
(b) Drama .
(c) Comedy.
(d) Horror.

5. Although it is known that African Americans are not biologically or mentally inferior, what occurred during the World War II?
(a) The troops were integrated.
(b) The troops were segregated.
(c) The troops were evaluated.
(d) African Americans were not allowed to fight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the political affiliation of the Amsterdam Star-News?

3. How is the Negro in America referred to in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

4. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?

5. In what era did James Baldwin write Notes of a Native Son?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what is the legend of Paris? What is the legend's connection to reality?

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

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

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

5. According to Baldwin, how do white Americans react to the American Negro's presence in Paris?

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

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

8. According to Baldwin, how does an individual become an American? And what does this mean for African Americans?

9. What is the significance of having both the lead characters in the film Carmen Jones cast by light-complected Negroes?

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

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