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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 defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?
(a) By analyzing female characters in Wright's minor novels.
(b) By describing the role of women in Wright's life.
(c) By arguing that Wright was insightful into the sexist nature of black experience.
(d) By saying that Wright's main characters are often sympathetic with women.

2. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Exile.
(d) Slave mentality.

3. What was private violence connected to in Richard Wright's account?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Public violence.

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

5. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Revises them.
(b) Challenges them.
(c) Confirms them.
(d) Explodes them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?

2. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

3. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

4. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

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

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