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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the owner of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?
(a) Chester Bomar Himes.
(b) Inez Cavanaugh.
(c) Otto Preminger.
(d) Harry Belafonte.

2. What term does Baldwin use to describe the lives of American student in Paris in the 1950s?
(a) Social Stability.
(b) Social Butterflies.
(c) Social Congruence.
(d) Social Limbo.

3. According to Baldwin, which one of the following performers had the ability to be a successful performer in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Duke Ellington.
(b) Harry Belafonte.
(c) Jospehine Baker.
(d) Dorothy Dandridge.

4. In the chapter entitled A Question of Identity, what does Baldwin describe as a flimsy structure, beneath contempt, designed by and for all the other people?
(a) America.
(b) Society.
(c) Justice.
(d) Citizenship.

5. Instead of discussing the past, what does Baldwin suggest the American Negro and Whites discuss while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) French politics.
(b) Musicians.
(c) American politics.
(d) The Eiffel Tower.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Baldwin believed that the American Negro in Paris in the 1940s and 50s was forced to exercise what practice?

3. Who visits Baldwin while he is in prison with the promise of sending someone to represent him at his trial?

4. What happened on the same day that Baldwin's father died?

5. What legislation made it possible for American soldiers to pay for their education in Paris after the war?

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