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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Baldwin suggest attracted ex-GI's to live and study in Paris?
(a) The beauty of the language.
(b) The romanticism associated with Paris.
(c) The architecture associated with Paris.
(d) The food associated with Paris.

2. Who were the only white people that visited Baldwin's childhood home?
(a) Welfare workers and police officers.
(b) Welfare workers and teachers.
(c) Welfare workers and bill collectors.
(d) Bill Collectors and police officers.

3. Baldwin believed that the American Negro in Paris in the 1940s and 50s was forced to exercise what practice?
(a) Racial discrimination.
(b) Age discrimination.
(c) Democratic discrimination.
(d) Undemocratic discrimination.

4. What does Baldwin assume is the main religion of the Swiss village?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Judiasm.
(d) Buddhism.

5. According to Baldwin, what does the black man in American struggle to find?
(a) His childhood memories.
(b) His former slave master.
(c) His own identity.
(d) His real family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Baldwin, who were the only people able to maintain a useful and unquestioned friendship with Negroes during the 1940s and 50s in Paris?

3. What reason does Baldwin give for not believing that ex-GIs traveled to Paris to study?

4. Where does Baldwin stay while in Switzerland?

5. Who is the owner of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?

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