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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. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Communal.
(c) Alienated.
(d) Individualized.

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

3. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?
(a) A prophecy of a homeland.
(b) Wandering for a time.
(c) A home unto himself.
(d) Homeless.

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

5. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) When he bought another man's freedom.
(b) In early childhood.
(c) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(d) When he asked to vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

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

3. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

4. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

5. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

(see the answer key)

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