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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 does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?
(a) Fragmentation of the global consciousness.
(b) Limitation to historical self-awareness.
(c) Internalization of an oppressed mindset.
(d) Transcendent consciousness.

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

3. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) Class consciousness.
(b) A collective identity.
(c) Political power.
(d) Resistance to industrialism.

4. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) Reconciliation with white culture.
(b) Assimilation.
(c) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(d) A closed racial community.

5. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The factory.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) The mall.
(d) The suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?

2. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

3. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

4. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?

5. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?

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