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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 say DuBois arrived at his identity?
(a) By many routes.
(b) Straight from his roots.
(c) By choice.
(d) Accidentally.

2. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Modern marriage.
(c) Factory production.
(d) Capitalist exploitation.

3. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.
(b) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(c) They are not well theorized.
(d) They do not fit into neat categories.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Quotidian.
(b) Elite.
(c) Proletariat.
(d) Demotic.

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A hegemonic empire.
(c) A dynamic alliance.
(d) A global arts and entertainment empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

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

3. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?

4. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?

5. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

(see the answer key)

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