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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 image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Cool, aloof, suave.
(b) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.
(c) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(d) Intellectual, hip, wise.

2. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Common privation.

3. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Fetishize it.
(b) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.
(c) Subsume it into working class consciousness.
(d) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.

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

5. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was criticized for?
(a) Writing men and women who are victims of the capitalist system.
(b) Hatred of women.
(c) Failing to write about specifically American concerns.
(d) Writing misogynistic male characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

2. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

3. What does Gilroy say is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?

4. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?

5. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?

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