2. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(b) When he asked to vote.
(c) When he bought another man's freedom.
(d) In early childhood.

3. What is the role of slavery in the black idea of tradition?
(a) The founding event.
(b) A chance to participate in the ongoing developments of modernism.
(c) A footnote to the development of sub-Saharan civilizations.
(d) A trial and opportunity for redemption through suffering.

4. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?
(a) Colonialism.
(b) Sustainability.
(c) Oil.
(d) Race.

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

6. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?
(a) Modern marriage.
(b) Factory production.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Capitalist exploitation.

7. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.
(b) To live with what is in the present.
(c) To look it in the face.
(d) To try to hide the past away.

8. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?
(a) Communism.
(b) Corporate industrialism.
(c) Modernity.
(d) Capitalism.

9. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?
(a) He asks for a specifically American black culture.
(b) He proposes that art is a solution to tension between races.
(c) He accepts that black experiences can resonate with non-blacks.
(d) He calls for a new pan-Africanism.

10. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
(a) Because he has been misinterpreted.
(b) Because Wright was so ambivalent in his writing.
(c) Because he was pigeon-holed as a sexist.
(d) Because he moved away from the U.S.

11. When was the journal 'Presence Africaine' published?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1972.

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

13. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?
(a) Dry.
(b) Restless.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Condescending.

14. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?
(a) He felt like a spokesman for his race because he was born among them in the south.
(b) He felt genuinely black because he was born in Africa.
(c) He felt aloof from American race politics because he was born in England.
(d) He felt inauthentically black because he was not born in the south.

15. What heresy did Richard Wright commit, in Gilroy's account?
(a) Saying that blacks shared responsibility for their situation.
(b) Saying that blacks really were inferior to whites, in certain cases.
(c) Saying that history would repeat itself with slavery.
(d) Saying that black liberation was impossible, because the self is an endless war against itself.