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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 modern subjectivity?
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Unique.
(d) Decentralized.

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

3. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) American blacks.
(b) Post-slavery peoples.
(c) African blacks.
(d) The black Atlantic.

4. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) American literature.
(b) American pragmatism.
(c) International Marxism.
(d) Confidence in modernism.

5. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?
(a) Modernity.
(b) Corporate industrialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Richard Wright's politics?

2. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?

3. What is the aim of Chapter 6?

4. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?

5. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

(see the answer key)

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