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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 5,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 6,000.
(d) 3,000.

2. In the chapter, A Question of Identity, how does Baldwin learn about his struggle for identity in the world?
(a) By observing others and examining his own growth.
(b) By speaking with Parisians.
(c) By observing the lifestyle of the French African.
(d) By studying at a Parisian University.

3. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?
(a) The African past that is disregarded in Europe.
(b) The American past that is disregarded in Europe.
(c) The European present.
(d) The European future.

4. Where does Baldwin think the older brothers and sisters in the Swiss village go to school?
(a) The synagogue.
(b) America.
(c) The town at the bottom of the mountain.
(d) France.

5. What difference does Baldwin suggest exists between soldiers that studied in Paris and those that did not?
(a) Many that did not study in Paris died in battle.
(b) Many that studied there did not see active duty.
(c) Many that studied there return to America.
(d) Many that studied there saw active duty

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Baldwin's father born?

2. In what year did Baldwin's father die?

3. Which group did Baldwin mention as living together in groups - in the same neighborhoods and student hotels - while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?

4. What issue is the American constantly confronted with in Paris?

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

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