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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. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The factory owners'.
(b) The modern workers'.
(c) The white European's.
(d) The liberated woman's.

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

3. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His travels to Africa.
(b) His political activities.
(c) His birth in Chicago.
(d) His origins in Mississippi.

4. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
(a) His exposure to voodoo.
(b) His success in Europe.
(c) His cosmopolitan culture.
(d) His experiences in Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?

2. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?

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

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

5. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

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