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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 does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is now confused.
(b) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(c) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(d) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.

2. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
(a) The murderous potential in technology.
(b) The limits of rationality.
(c) The numbness to human suffering that comes from modernism.
(d) The destructive potential of bureaucracies.

3. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are already outdated.
(b) They are contain stereotypes.
(c) They are too homogenous.
(d) They are not coherent.

4. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
(a) Essentialist.
(b) Pluralist.
(c) Monotheist.
(d) Relativist.

5. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A shameful secret.
(b) A footnote.
(c) An untold story.
(d) A key part.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

2. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

3. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?

4. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

5. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?

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