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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) An act of mourning.
(b) An internalized history.
(c) An act of hostility.
(d) A process of liberation.

2. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Political power.
(b) Intellectual demonstrations of power.
(c) Money.
(d) Exaggerated masculinity.

3. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Secure.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Tenuous.
(d) Unsteady.

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not holistic.
(b) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(c) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(d) It is not honest.

5. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Hegel.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) Gilroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

2. What were Richard Wright's politics?

3. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

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