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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 was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The methods of narrating black history.
(b) The abolition movement.
(c) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.

2. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of race relations.
(b) A history of pre-contact North America.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of blacks in the new world.

3. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of capitalism.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) Utopian visions.
(d) The idea of modernity.

4. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?
(a) Internalization of an oppressed mindset.
(b) Transcendent consciousness.
(c) Fragmentation of the global consciousness.
(d) Limitation to historical self-awareness.

5. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Precision.
(d) Performance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

4. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?

5. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?

(see the answer key)

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