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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?
(a) Emotional indifference to suffering.
(b) The black experience.
(c) Tolerance of cultural differences.
(d) Genocidal terror.

2. What does Gilroy say tradition helps to do with regard to slavery?
(a) Transform its legacy.
(b) Cauterize its pain.
(c) Revise its effects.
(d) Avoid its memory.

3. How does Gilroy say blacks are different from Jews?
(a) Blacks do not believe that they have a covenant with their god.
(b) Blacks were never systematically exterminated.
(c) Blacks do not have a homeland to return to.
(d) Blacks do not believe they all come from a common ancestor.

4. What does Gilroy associate racial traditions with?
(a) Syncretic modernity.
(b) International modernism.
(c) Pre-modernity.
(d) Postmodernity.

5. What does Gilroy say we should accept as inescapable?
(a) History.
(b) Hybridity.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Essentialism.

6. What does Gilroy say slavery tried to do to tradition?
(a) Erase it.
(b) Compete with it.
(c) Rewrite it.
(d) Co-opt it.

7. What phenomenon will help us understand race theory in Gilroy's account?
(a) Cycles of history.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Mutation.
(d) Revolution.

8. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) America's metaphor.
(b) The race that dare not speak its name.
(c) The burden of guilt.
(d) The heart of modernity.

9. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?
(a) A home unto himself.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Wandering for a time.
(d) A prophecy of a homeland.

10. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Liberation from slavery.
(b) Acceptance of slavery.
(c) Surviving the leap to modernism.
(d) Exile from home.

11. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(b) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.

12. Why would blacks be urged to forget slavery?
(a) To recall the larger tradition of African history.
(b) To reclaim their individual experiences of trauma, and live from there.
(c) To allow blacks to claim the benefits of modernity as their own.
(d) To clear the way for the difficulties that are particular to modernity.

13. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of reclaiming the self from slavery.
(b) A world of opportunities in industrialism capitalism.
(c) A chance to invent tradition going forward.
(d) A dynamic development of black culture.

14. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) It repairs the connection with Africa.
(b) It forms the basis for pan-Africanism.
(c) It hides the differences between black experiences.
(d) It asserts the kinship of cultural forms.

15. What does Gilroy say we should discuss?
(a) The differences between the Holocaust and slavery.
(b) Common themes between the Holocaust and slavery.
(c) The dangers of industrial technology.
(d) The opportunities for understanding brought about by modern communication techniques.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?

2. What does Gilroy say the Afrocentrism movement relies on?

3. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?

4. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?

5. What heresy did Richard Wright commit, in Gilroy's account?

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