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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 conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between owners and workers.
(b) The conflict between young and old.
(c) The conflict between men and women.
(d) The conflict between man and technology.

2. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?
(a) Communist.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Socialist.

3. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?
(a) Resolving cultural conflict.
(b) Appropriating different cultures.
(c) Forestalling cultural conflict.
(d) Blurring the lines between selves.

4. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Gilroy.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) Hegel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?

2. What is the effect of turning toward tradition in Gilroy's account?

3. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

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

(see the answer key)

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