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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. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?
(a) By many routes.
(b) Straight from his roots.
(c) Accidentally.
(d) By choice.

2. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) Reconciliation with white culture.
(b) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) A closed racial community.

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

4. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?
(a) As a scion of a new race.
(b) As an artist.
(c) As an exception to his race.
(d) As a representative of his race.

5. What are blacks asked to remember instead of slavery?
(a) Their salvation from tribal existence.
(b) Black civilization.
(c) Their ongoing cultural pride.
(d) The benefits of Western progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why would blacks be urged to forget slavery?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

4. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?

5. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?

2. What does Gilroy say is the black relation with time?

3. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?

4. What tension did politics create in black culture?

5. What, in Gilroy's account, was Richard Wright's thinking about racial identity?

6. What is the importance of the theme of love and loss in black popular arts, according to Gilroy?

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

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

9. Why do Jews and blacks both resist the comparison of slavery and the Holocaust, as Gilroy describes it?

10. What view of the black Atlantic does Paul Gilroy leave us with at the end of the book?

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