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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Equal voting rights for black women.
(d) Black roots.

2. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Pan-Africanism.
(b) Returning to black roots.
(c) Essential blackness.
(d) Social perfection.

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

4. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of nostalgia for home.
(b) The state of being in pain.
(c) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.
(d) The state of displacement from the self.

5. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) Appalachian spiritualists.
(b) Southern blues singers.
(c) African drummers.
(d) Abolition singers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

3. How did Richard Wright want to present blacks in his books?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

5. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

(see the answer key)

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