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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 exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Demotic.
(c) Elite.
(d) Quotidian.

2. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
(a) Citizenship.
(b) The demands of his national and racial identifies.
(c) Family ties.
(d) Cultural affiliation.

3. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(b) Assuaging political unrest.
(c) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(d) Articulating political unrest.

4. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1865.

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The woman's.
(b) The slave's.
(c) The slave owner's.
(d) The free black's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?

2. What function does the first chapter serve?

3. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

4. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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