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

2. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1870s.

3. What were Richard Wright's politics?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Anti-imperialist.
(d) Militarist.

4. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?
(a) As a messianic religion.
(b) As a form of liberation theology.
(c) As a destructive war.
(d) As a great liberator.

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-contact North America.
(b) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(c) A history of race relations.
(d) A history of blacks in the new world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

2. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

3. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

4. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

5. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

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