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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. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(b) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(c) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(d) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Essential.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Clearly absurd.
(d) Inescapable.

3. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His birth in Chicago.
(b) His travels to Africa.
(c) His origins in Mississippi.
(d) His political activities.

4. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They reward the simplest innovations.
(b) They freeze the forms.
(c) They drive change in the forms.
(d) They follow the innovators.

5. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Decentralized.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

3. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?

4. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?

5. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

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