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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 Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) Reconciliation with white culture.
(b) Assimilation.
(c) A closed racial community.
(d) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.

2. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?
(a) Corporate industrialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Modernity.

3. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Terror at industrial culture.
(b) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(c) The pain of slavery.
(d) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.

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

5. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The relation of blood enemies.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The leader-follower relation.
(d) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?

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

3. Where does Gilroy say Richard Wright's profundity came from?

4. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?

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

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