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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 conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between men and women.
(b) The conflict between owners and workers.
(c) The conflict between man and technology.
(d) The conflict between young and old.

2. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Non-violent.
(b) Hierarchical.
(c) Non-dominating.
(d) Liberating.

3. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Performance.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Precision.

4. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His travels to Africa.
(b) His origins in Mississippi.
(c) His political activities.
(d) His birth in Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

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

4. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?

5. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?

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