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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. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) A process of liberation.
(b) An act of mourning.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) An act of hostility.

2. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be used as a political tool.
(b) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(c) It should be higher.
(d) It should be recognized as a form of communication.

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Divisive.
(b) Unifying.
(c) Skeptical.
(d) Intellectual.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was private violence connected to in Richard Wright's account?

2. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

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

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

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