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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 this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(b) A theme to improvise on as he continues.
(c) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(d) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.

2. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?
(a) Limitation to historical self-awareness.
(b) Fragmentation of the global consciousness.
(c) Transcendent consciousness.
(d) Internalization of an oppressed mindset.

3. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) A source of modern ritual.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.
(d) Sublime and unfathomable.

4. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The relation of blood enemies.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(d) The leader-follower relation.

5. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After the Great War.
(b) After World War II.
(c) After the American Civil War.
(d) After the American Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

2. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

3. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

4. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

5. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

(see the answer key)

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