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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. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) Confidence in modernism.
(b) International Marxism.
(c) American literature.
(d) American pragmatism.

2. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Intellectual demonstrations of power.
(b) Money.
(c) Political power.
(d) Exaggerated masculinity.

3. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not holistic.
(b) It is not honest.
(c) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(d) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.

4. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Humorous analogy.
(b) Anecdotal introduction.
(c) Conceptual background.
(d) Historical perspective.

5. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too rural.
(b) They are too nationalistic.
(c) They are too cosmopolitan.
(d) They are too essentialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?

2. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

4. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

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