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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 is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?
(a) Over-polarized vocabulary.
(b) Relativism.
(c) Uncritical acceptance of all things primitive.
(d) Essentialism.

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

3. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Returning to black roots.
(b) Social perfection.
(c) Pan-Africanism.
(d) Essential blackness.

4. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?
(a) Return to origins.
(b) Essentialism.
(c) Practical applications.
(d) Developmental progression.

5. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.
(b) Subsume it into working class consciousness.
(c) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.
(d) Fetishize it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

2. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

3. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?

4. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

5. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

(see the answer key)

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