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  In Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, what was the name of the main character's potential fiancee? see if you know the answer
Answered: 156 times
Correct: 76 times (22.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 80 times (23.1%)
Skipped: 190 times (54.9%)
  James Baldwin’s first book, Go Tell It on the Mountain, is see if you know the answer
Answered: 180 times
Correct: 146 times (59.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 34 times (13.8%)
Skipped: 67 times (27.1%)
  One of the essays in which James Baldwin spoke out against Richard Wright’s Native Son was see if you know the answer
Answered: 163 times
Correct: 67 times (23.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 96 times (33.7%)
Skipped: 122 times (42.8%)
  Baldwin’s collection of essays entitled The Evidence of Things Not Seen concerns: see if you know the answer
Answered: 92 times
Correct: 31 times (16.3%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 61 times (32.1%)
Skipped: 98 times (51.6%)
  James Baldwin’s play concerning a woman evangelist torn between religious fanaticism and love of her carefree, jazz-playing husband is: see if you know the answer
Answered: 108 times
Correct: 23 times (11.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 85 times (43.6%)
Skipped: 87 times (44.6%)
  Set in the bohemian world of 1950s Paris, this James Baldwin novel recounts a young man’s awakening to his true homosexual nature . . see if you know the answer
Answered: 127 times
Correct: 86 times (44.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 41 times (21.1%)
Skipped: 67 times (34.5%)
  This James Baldwin short story portrays the initiation of a racist as a man remembers the time his parents took him to see the mutilation and murder of a black man . . . see if you know the answer
Answered: 92 times
Correct: 26 times (13.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 66 times (35.1%)
Skipped: 96 times (51.1%)
  James Baldwin James Baldwin was raised in Harlem and moved to Greenwich Village when he was 17. In 1948 he famously moved to... see if you know the answer
Answered: 941 times
Correct: 611 times (43.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 330 times (23.6%)
Skipped: 457 times (32.7%)
  James Baldwin In 1956 James Baldwin published a novel that created controversy due to its homoerotic content. What was the name of that book? see if you know the answer
Answered: 926 times
Correct: 409 times (31.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 517 times (39.6%)
Skipped: 379 times (29.0%)
  Who wrote in The Fire Next Time, "black has become a beautiful color because it is feared."? see if you know the answer
Answered: 60 times
Correct: 43 times (53.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 17 times (21.3%)
Skipped: 20 times (25.0%)
  Which one of James Baldwin's novels, published in 1956, stirred controversy because of its explicit homoerotic content? see if you know the answer
Answered: 800 times
Correct: 540 times (52.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 260 times (25.3%)
Skipped: 228 times (22.2%)
  Which writer was stabbed by a pimp while he was living in Paris in the late 1930's? (When asked why he had done it, the pimp - whose name was Prudent - said he didn't know.) see if you know the answer
Answered: 90 times
Correct: 31 times (24.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 59 times (46.1%)
Skipped: 38 times (29.7%)
  What author wrote Another Country and Nobody Knows My Name? see if you know the answer
Answered: 581 times
Correct: 396 times (47.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 185 times (22.2%)
Skipped: 252 times (30.3%)

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