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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. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
(a) Cultural affiliation.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Family ties.
(d) The demands of his national and racial identifies.

2. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?
(a) Whites identifying with his black characters.
(b) Blacks criticizing his characters.
(c) The history of blacks in America.
(d) Europeans taking his books as true indications of life in America.

3. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The slave owner's.
(b) The woman's.
(c) The free black's.
(d) The slave's.

4. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) A closed racial community.
(b) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(c) Reconciliation with white culture.
(d) Assimilation.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Holistic.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Contingent.
(d) Fractured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?

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

3. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

4. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

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