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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 did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Essential blackness.
(b) Returning to black roots.
(c) Social perfection.
(d) Pan-Africanism.

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

3. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?
(a) Forestalling cultural conflict.
(b) Resolving cultural conflict.
(c) Blurring the lines between selves.
(d) Appropriating different cultures.

4. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(b) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(c) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(d) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.

5. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
(a) The history of blacks in America.
(b) Whites identifying with his black characters.
(c) Blacks criticizing his characters.
(d) Europeans taking his books as true indications of life in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

2. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?

3. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

4. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

5. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?

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