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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 feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Resentment of progress.
(b) Longing for the apocalypse.
(c) Anger for being taken into exile.
(d) Ambivalence about modernity.

2. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a source of power.
(b) As ancient essences.
(c) As a hidden history.
(d) As a process of movement and mediation.

3. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The leader-follower relation.
(d) The relation of blood enemies.

4. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?
(a) Homeless.
(b) Wandering for a time.
(c) A prophecy of a homeland.
(d) A home unto himself.

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(b) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(c) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(d) In light of the West's nationalist movements.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?

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

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

4. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

5. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

(see the answer key)

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