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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. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to South America.
(b) Missionaries to Africa.
(c) Missionaries to India.
(d) Missionaries to America.

2. How does Baldwin describe the American Ideal?
(a) Everyone should connect to their cultural identity.
(b) Everyone should be as different as possible.
(c) Everyone should be as alike as possible.
(d) Everyone should reconnect to American history.

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

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

5. What does Baldwin say is the hatred symbol of Georgia?
(a) The Black man.
(b) The Mulatto.
(c) The Jew.
(d) The Negro.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?

2. Where did the Melodeers ultimately end up rehearsing for their performances in Atlanta?

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

4. What are there more of in Harlem than any other ghetto in the city?

5. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Amsterdam Star-News.

2. Describe Baldwin's father.

3. What is Henry Wallace's role in the Progressive Party?

4. Describe Baldwin's relationship with his father.

5. Why don't the individuals in the Swiss village identify black people as negative?

6. Why were the Melodeers performing in the south?

7. Why does Baldwin conclude that the religion of the villagers is Catholicism?

8. Why does Baldwin think that there is nowhere on earth for the black man to call home?

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

10. Why does Baldwin use the theme of racial prejudice to set the topic and tone for Notes of a Native Son?

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