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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Baldwin, at what point does the making of an American begin?
(a) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and receives their U.S. citizenship from the government.
(b) At the point where the individual reaches Ellis Island in New York.
(c) At the point that the person enters the country and adopts the venture of the adopted land.
(d) At the point where the individual rejects all other ties and history to other nations and adopts the venture of the adopted land.

2. How are the oppressed and oppressor described in the book, Notes of a Native Son?
(a) They are both are oppressed.
(b) They are divided by society.
(c) They are bound together within the same society.
(d) They are separated by common law.

3. What legislation made it possible for American soldiers to pay for their education in Paris after the war?
(a) The Foreign Education Bill.
(b) The Soldier's Education Act.
(c) The Veterans Educational Achievement Act.
(d) G.I. Bill.

4. What impeded the Progressive Party's progression in Harlem during the 1940s?
(a) The campaign promises were too common.
(b) The campaign promises were geared towards Whites.
(c) The campaign promises were geared towards African Americans.
(d) The campaign promises were too extravagant.

5. What is the name of the first church that Baldwin can remember attending with his family as a child?
(a) 138th Street Baptist Church.
(b) First Baptist Church.
(c) Abyssinia Baptist Church.
(d) Harlem United Church.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What other event shared the same date as the funeral of Baldwin's father?

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

4. Protest novels are said to resemble:

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

(see the answer key)

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