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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 does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It confirms it.
(b) It balances it.
(c) It defines it.
(d) It breaks it.

2. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Utopian visions.
(b) The idea of capitalism.
(c) Modern visions of socialism.
(d) The idea of modernity.

3. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?
(a) The Pullitzer Price for fiction.
(b) Bestseller status in the U.S.
(c) Recognition by the international literary establishment.
(d) Bestseller status in Europe.

4. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
(a) Essentialist.
(b) Relativist.
(c) Monotheist.
(d) Pluralist.

5. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Stepparent.
(b) Sibling.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?

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

3. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?

4. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

5. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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