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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 were Richard Wright's politics?
(a) Communist.
(b) Socialist.
(c) Anti-imperialist.
(d) Militarist.

2. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is now confused.
(b) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(c) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(d) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.

3. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.
(b) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(c) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(d) The idea of inalienable rights.

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

5. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?
(a) The ideology of self-reliance.
(b) The ideology of racial progress.
(c) The ideology of family.
(d) The ideology of personal emancipation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?

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

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

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

5. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?

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