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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 did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Terror.
(c) Profit.
(d) Communalism.

2. What does Gilroy say is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?
(a) Uncritical acceptance of all things primitive.
(b) Essentialism.
(c) Over-polarized vocabulary.
(d) Relativism.

3. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?
(a) The lack of evidence from their familial histories.
(b) Remembering.
(c) Loss of uniqueness.
(d) Confronting all the things that cannot be known.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Contingent.
(b) Holistic.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Temporary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?

2. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?

3. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

4. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?

5. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?

(see the answer key)

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