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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the aim of Chapter 6?
(a) To describe the ways tradition has been harmful to the black experience.
(b) To narrate the he says that of tradition as a concept in the black experience.
(c) To cast tradition as something other than modernity's opposite.
(d) To demonstrate the ambivalence toward 'tradition' in black communities.

2. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Racial heterogeneity.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Inbreeding.
(d) Exogamy.

3. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?
(a) Cheap energy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Racial subordination.
(d) Technological exploitation of resources.

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery?
(a) Complex.
(b) Equivocal.
(c) Brutal.
(d) Multi-faceted.

5. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?
(a) That slavery was a finite stage in the development of the world consciousness.
(b) That slavery was worse than cultural collapse.
(c) That slavery was not the worst form of domination.
(d) That slavery was the worst thing people could suffer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?

2. What does Gilroy say Afrocentrism is really?

3. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

4. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

5. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three modes of thinking, seeing and being which DuBois says are the basis of double consciousness?

2. What was Richard Wright's feeling about white culture?

3. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?

4. In what way was capitalist culture a kind of crisis in itself, Wright?

5. How does blackness function in DuBois' writing, as Gilroy describes it?

6. What idea was undermined, in Richard Wright's mind, by the violence of modern American culture?

7. How does Gilroy characterize the ontological state of slavery?

8. Why, in Gilroy's opinion, is tradition useful in modern black culture?

9. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?

10. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

(see the answer keys)

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