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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 characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?
(a) Condescending.
(b) Dry.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Restless.

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

3. What do Jews and blacks fear from a discussion of the Holocaust and slavery?
(a) The lack of evidence from their familial histories.
(b) Remembering.
(c) Confronting all the things that cannot be known.
(d) Loss of uniqueness.

4. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Unprecedented power.
(b) Peace.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Uniqueness.

5. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.
(b) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.
(c) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.
(d) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

2. What does Gilroy say the Afrocentrism movement relies on?

3. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?

4. What does Gilroy say tradition helps to do with regard to slavery?

5. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?

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