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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 phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) The race that dare not speak its name.
(b) The burden of guilt.
(c) America's metaphor.
(d) The heart of modernity.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.
(b) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.
(c) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.
(d) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.

3. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Inbreeding.
(c) Exogamy.
(d) Racial heterogeneity.

4. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Africa.

5. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are already outdated.
(c) They are not coherent.
(d) They are contain stereotypes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

2. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?

3. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?

4. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?

5. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

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