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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 does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(c) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(d) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.

2. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has defined the counter-culture.
(b) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(c) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(d) It has been ignored.

3. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It balances it.
(b) It defines it.
(c) It confirms it.
(d) It breaks it.

4. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(b) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(c) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(d) There are no clear boundaries between people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

2. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?

3. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

4. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?

5. What term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?

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