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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Many Thousands Gone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theme of Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son?
(a) Self-worth.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Self-righteousness.
(d) Racial prejudice.

2. What are protest novels?
(a) Racism connecting nowhere to social policy.
(b) Socialism connecting nowhere to racism.
(c) Fantasies connecting nowhere to reality.
(d) Reality connecting nowhere with fantasy.

3. Protest novels are said to resemble:
(a) Missionaries to Africa.
(b) Missionaries to South America.
(c) Missionaries to America.
(d) Missionaries to India.

4. What novel does Baldwin criticize as a more modern piece of shallow propaganda from the Negro experience?
(a) Carmen Jones.
(b) Native Son.
(c) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(d) Black No More.

5. What is the avowed aim of the American protest novel?
(a) To bring the ideals of socialism to the oppressed.
(b) To bring greater freedom to the oppressed.
(c) To bring greater charity to the oppressed.
(d) To bring Christianity to the oppressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Baldwin describe literature on the subject of the Negro in America when it is written by Whites?

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. According to Baldwin, what has led to unforeseen paradoxical distress?

4. What is dehumanization of the Negro inseparable from?

5. Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin was written?

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