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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 term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?
(a) 'Dual personality'.
(b) 'King of the kingdom of culture'.
(c) 'Schizophrenic'.
(d) 'Urban-cosmopolitan'.

2. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(b) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(c) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.
(d) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.

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

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

5. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Race.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) The nation-state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What heresy did Richard Wright commit, in Gilroy's account?

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

3. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

5. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

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