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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 characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Condescending.
(c) Dry.
(d) Restless.

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Assuaging political unrest.
(b) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(c) Articulating political unrest.
(d) Numbing people to modern atrocities.

3. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
(a) Because Wright was so ambivalent in his writing.
(b) Because he moved away from the U.S.
(c) Because he has been misinterpreted.
(d) Because he was pigeon-holed as a sexist.

4. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(c) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(d) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.

5. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?
(a) Developmental progression.
(b) Return to origins.
(c) Practical applications.
(d) Essentialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?

2. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?

3. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?

4. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

5. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?

(see the answer key)

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