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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 conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between men and women.
(b) The conflict between young and old.
(c) The conflict between owners and workers.
(d) The conflict between man and technology.

2. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Longing.
(b) Terror.
(c) Rebelliousness.
(d) Homelessness.

3. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a process of movement and mediation.
(b) As a source of power.
(c) As ancient essences.
(d) As a hidden history.

4. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(b) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(c) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(d) Race is a matter of choice and identification.

5. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To express their pain.
(b) To preserve their ancient culture.
(c) To invoke their racial memories.
(d) To communicate with each other over distances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?

2. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?

3. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

4. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

5. What did Richard Wright say was the core of modernization?

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