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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 kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-contact North America.
(b) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of race relations.

2. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?
(a) With the beginning of slavery.
(b) When religious understanding of the world collapsed.
(c) With the beginning of the Renaissance.
(d) With the development of technology.

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

4. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) More innovative musical forms.
(b) African roots.
(c) Tools for assimilating.
(d) Core blackness.

5. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Kant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

2. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?

3. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?

5. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

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