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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Without the Consolation of Tears, Richard Wright, France and the Ambivalence of Community.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) An untold story.
(b) A footnote.
(c) A shameful secret.
(d) A key part.

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

4. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?
(a) Childhood and early consciousness.
(b) Exploitation of labor for profit.
(c) America's history of racial slavery.
(d) The earth and its resources.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

2. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

3. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

4. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?

5. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?

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