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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 pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Unifying.

2. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) Transnational perspective.
(b) A simplification of racial concepts.
(c) A historical context for ideas of race.
(d) New definitions of the races.

3. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?
(a) With the beginning of the Renaissance.
(b) With the beginning of slavery.
(c) When religious understanding of the world collapsed.
(d) With the development of technology.

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

5. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?
(a) America's history of racial slavery.
(b) Childhood and early consciousness.
(c) Exploitation of labor for profit.
(d) The earth and its resources.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

2. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

3. What conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?

4. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

5. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

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