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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has made some changes in the face of the Negro?
(a) Age.
(b) History.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Time.

2. How is the Negro in America referred to in the chapter entitled Many Thousands Gone?
(a) A series of shadows.
(b) A mass of darkness.
(c) A series of mishaps.
(d) A gloomy mist.

3. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?
(a) Our passion for clarity.
(b) Our passion for knowledge.
(c) Our passion for categorization.
(d) Our passion for change.

4. What is the setting of the opening of Native Son?
(a) A YMCA in Atlanta, GA.
(b) A Harlem apartment.
(c) The projects of the Bronx, NY.
(d) A Chicago tenement.

5. Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) George S. Schuyler.
(d) Richard Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?

2. Who played the lead role of Carmen in the film Carmen Jones?

3. Who played the lead male role in the film Carmen Jones?

4. What two stereotypical figures does the author portray as portraits of the Negro in America with laudatory and heinous qualities?

5. Why does Baldwin think it is safe for the film Carmen Jones to utilize an all-Negro cast?

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