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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color clothing did Baldwin say he did not have to wear to his father's funeral?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) White.

2. What action performed by the prison guards did Baldwin think demoralized him as a human being?
(a) Removal of one's shoelace and belts.
(b) Restriction of one's religious beliefs.
(c) Deliberately not feeding the inmates.
(d) Branding each prisoner with their inmate number.

3. How far was the Fresnes prison from Paris?
(a) Sixteen Kilometers.
(b) Fourteen Kilometers.
(c) Ten Kilometers.
(d) Twelve Kilometers.

4. What is the population of the town at the foot of the mountain, where many of the Swiss villagers shop and go to the movies?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 5,000.

5. Why does Baldwin go to the Swiss village?
(a) To see if there are any Black people in Switzerland.
(b) To study the culture of the people in the village.
(c) To practice a new religion.
(d) To write.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Baldwin, what discovery brings an end to the alienation of the American student in Paris?

2. Why does Baldwin escape to Paris?

3. In the essay Equal in Paris, what are we told lead police to know that one of the Parisian hotels had their property stolen?

4. Where does Baldwin stay while in Switzerland?

5. What emotion of Baldwin's father does he describe as "never to be trusted"?

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