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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 is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Africa.

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Articulating political unrest.
(b) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(c) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(d) Assuaging political unrest.

3. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The relation of blood enemies.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(d) The leader-follower relation.

4. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Primarily interested.
(b) Uninterested.
(c) Casually interested.
(d) Excessively interested.

5. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Intellectual demonstrations of power.
(b) Political power.
(c) Exaggerated masculinity.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

2. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

3. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?

4. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

5. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?

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