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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. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Decentralized.
(b) Unique.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Ancient.

2. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?
(a) With the beginning of the Renaissance.
(b) With the beginning of slavery.
(c) When religious understanding of the world collapsed.
(d) With the development of technology.

3. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(b) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.
(c) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(d) A theme to improvise on as he continues.

4. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.
(b) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.
(c) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(d) New forms of art in white culture.

5. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Hegel.
(b) W. E. B. DuBois.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Gilroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

4. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

(see the answer key)

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