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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 criticize, according to Gilroy?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Modernity.
(c) Communism.
(d) Corporate industrialism.

2. What conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between young and old.
(b) The conflict between owners and workers.
(c) The conflict between man and technology.
(d) The conflict between men and women.

3. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(b) As an exception to Western civilization.
(c) As central to Western culture.
(d) As the moral blight on modernity.

4. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?
(a) By saying that Wright's main characters are often sympathetic with women.
(b) By arguing that Wright was insightful into the sexist nature of black experience.
(c) By describing the role of women in Wright's life.
(d) By analyzing female characters in Wright's minor novels.

5. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Common privation.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Individualism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?

3. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?

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

5. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

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