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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?
(a) As a destructive war.
(b) As a form of liberation theology.
(c) As a messianic religion.
(d) As a great liberator.

2. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) An abolitionist.
(b) A historian.
(c) The father of black nationalism.
(d) A cultural critic who wrote about race.

3. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Kant.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Unifying.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Intellectual.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Quotidian.
(c) Elite.
(d) Demotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

2. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?

3. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

4. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

(see the answer key)

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