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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 idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(b) Self-reliance.
(c) Freedom from history.
(d) Salvation theology.

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

3. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) American blacks.
(b) African blacks.
(c) Post-slavery peoples.
(d) The black Atlantic.

4. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Cheap energy.
(c) Racial subordination.
(d) Technological exploitation of resources.

5. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.
(b) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.
(c) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.
(d) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

4. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

5. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?

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