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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. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) American pragmatism.
(b) American literature.
(c) International Marxism.
(d) Confidence in modernism.

2. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To invoke their racial memories.
(b) To communicate with each other over distances.
(c) To express their pain.
(d) To preserve their ancient culture.

3. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(b) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.

4. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) African roots.
(b) Tools for assimilating.
(c) More innovative musical forms.
(d) Core blackness.

5. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Exile.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Slave mentality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was private violence connected to in Richard Wright's account?

2. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

3. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

4. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

5. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?

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