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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In total, how many days did Baldwin spend in the French prison system?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.
2. What is the name of the night club in the Latin Quarter that specializes in fried chicken and jazz?
(a) Chez Paris.
(b) Sorbonne cafe.
(c) Le Paris cafe.
(d) Chez Inez.
3. What do the Swiss Villagers occasionally do on Sundays?
(a) Cook dinner.
(b) Ski.
(c) Go to the movies.
(d) Wash dirty laundry.
4. Who visits Baldwin while he is in prison with the promise of sending someone to represent him at his trial?
(a) A friend from New York City.
(b) A released prisoner.
(c) An American patent attorney.
(d) A prison guard.
5. What does Baldwin assume is the main religion of the Swiss village?
(a) Judiasm.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Buddhism.
6. How does Baldwin describe the lives of the nonperforming Negroes in Paris as compared to the lives of Negro entertainers in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Deprived.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Boring.
(d) Isolated.
7. In what year was Baldwin arrested in Paris?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1949.
8. According to Baldwin, what is afforded to American students in Paris?
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Irresponsibility.
(d) Equality.
9. What occurred a few hours after the funeral of Baldwin's father?
(a) A Progressive Party rally.
(b) A race riot.
(c) A black man was beat up by the police.
(d) Baldwin's brother passed away.
10. Where did Baldwin spend much of his time while in Paris?
(a) Parks.
(b) Cafes.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) Museums.
11. Which group did Baldwin mention as living together in groups - in the same neighborhoods and student hotels - while in Paris in the 1940s and 50s?
(a) Black soldiers.
(b) White Americans.
(c) The French African.
(d) American Negroes.
12. What action performed by the prison guards did Baldwin think demoralized him as a human being?
(a) Branding each prisoner with their inmate number.
(b) Removal of one's shoelace and belts.
(c) Deliberately not feeding the inmates.
(d) Restriction of one's religious beliefs.
13. What does Baldwin say must sustain the American Negro in the present?
(a) The American past that is disregarded in Europe.
(b) The European future.
(c) The African past that is disregarded in Europe.
(d) The European present.
14. What happened on the same day that Baldwin's father died?
(a) The seventh child was born.
(b) The ninth child was born.
(c) The tenth child was born.
(d) The eighth child was born.
15. According to Baldwin, what feeling did the American Negro and the French Negro share?
(a) A sense of sadness.
(b) A sense of change.
(c) A sense of displacement.
(d) A sense of overwhelming understanding.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Baldwin drink before his father's funeral?
2. In the essay Equal in Paris, what are we told lead police to know that one of the Parisian hotels had their property stolen?
3. What did Baldwin's first jail cell resemble?
4. Who traveled with Baldwin to visit his dying father on Long Island?
5. What food was always in the reoccurring nightmares that Baldwin had while in Fresnes?
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