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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Without the Consolation of Tears, Richard Wright, France and the Ambivalence of Community.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His travels to Africa.
(b) His birth in Chicago.
(c) His political activities.
(d) His origins in Mississippi.

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Assuaging political unrest.
(b) Articulating political unrest.
(c) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(d) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.

3. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As the fulfillment of history.
(b) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(c) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(d) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.

4. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Non-dominating.
(b) Non-violent.
(c) Hierarchical.
(d) Liberating.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.
(b) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.
(c) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.
(d) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

3. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

5. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

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