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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) Unifying.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Skeptical.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Inescapable.
(b) Clearly absurd.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Essential.

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too cosmopolitan.
(b) They are too essentialist.
(c) They are too nationalistic.
(d) They are too rural.

4. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) Chicago.
(b) London.
(c) In the American south.
(d) In his world travels.

5. What does Gilroy say is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?
(a) Over-polarized vocabulary.
(b) Relativism.
(c) Uncritical acceptance of all things primitive.
(d) Essentialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

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

3. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

4. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?

5. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?

(see the answer key)

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