Page Numbers
Context
Analysis and Motifs
100

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“You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free.”

What is page 295?

100

The name of the nephew for whom James Baldwin wrote My Dungeon Shook to

What is James?

100

What education represents

What is a privilege?

200

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“I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.”

What is page 292?

200

Name of The Fire Next Time's publisher

What is Dial Press?

200

What the church represented to Baldwin

What is a sanctuary/safe place?

300

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“I realized that the Bible had been written by white men. I knew that, according to many Christians, I was a descendant of Ham, who had been cursed, and that I was therefore predestined to be a slave.”

What is page 307?

300

The year Baldwin moved to Paris

What is 1948?

300

The person that introduced the idea of double consciousness (how Black Americans are trapped between a self-conception as an American and as an African descendant)

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

400

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"No one seems to know where the Nation of Islam get its money."

What is page 333?

400

*DAILY DOUBLE!!!*

The name of the church where Baldwin was a student preacher

What is Fireside Pentecostal Assembly?

400

Baldwin’s overall message to his nephew

What is being at peace/patient with oneself?

500

*DAILY DOUBLE!!!!*

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"If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne."

What is page 343?

500

The year The Fire Next Time was published

What is 1963?

500

An adjective often associated with Christianity

What is civilized?

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