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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 image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave plantation.
(b) The hangman's noose.
(c) The livery coat.
(d) The slave ship.
2. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Anecdotal introduction.
(b) Historical perspective.
(c) Conceptual background.
(d) Humorous analogy.
3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of race relations.
(b) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of pre-contact North America.
4. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) The burden of guilt.
(b) America's metaphor.
(c) The race that dare not speak its name.
(d) The heart of modernity.
5. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?
(a) Profit.
(b) Productivity.
(c) Terror.
(d) Communalism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
3. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?
4. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
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