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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Notes of a Native Son.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baldwin regard as the most important thing about the film Carmen Jones?
(a) The changes it suggests about the lives of Negroes.
(b) The questions it leaves in the mind relate more to inferior life of Americans.
(c) The questions it leaves about the relationship between Whites and Negroes.
(d) The impression it leaves about the realities of Negro life.

2. What two big name magazines, popular in the African American community in the 1940s, are mentioned in the chapter entitled The Harlem Ghetto?
(a) Ebony and Jet.
(b) Essence and Jet.
(c) Ebony and Essence.
(d) Ebony and Our World.

3. Where can the true raison d'être of the Negro press be found?
(a) Ebony magazine.
(b) The front pages of the Negro newspapers.
(c) Lifestyle sections of the Black magazines.
(d) Letters to the editor.

4. Since Negroes have been in this country, Baldwin writes that their one devastating gain was:
(a) Slavery.
(b) Abolition.
(c) Colonization.
(d) Emancipation.

5. Where did Baldwin go after his father's funeral to celebrate his birthday?
(a) Downtown.
(b) Atlantic City.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Baldwin suggest the presupposition of the two novels Kingsblood Royal and If He Hollers Let Him Go are in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?

3. What does Baldwin say it means for the Negro to be religious?

4. How does Baldwin say American life compares to life in other parts of the world in the 1940s?

5. Where is Atlanta located?

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