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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 form of liberation theology.
(b) As a messianic religion.
(c) As a great liberator.
(d) As a destructive war.

2. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(b) Intellectual, hip, wise.
(c) Cool, aloof, suave.
(d) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.

3. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Resentment of progress.
(b) Longing for the apocalypse.
(c) Anger for being taken into exile.
(d) Ambivalence about modernity.

4. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) A world of opportunities in industrialism capitalism.
(b) A chance to invent tradition going forward.
(c) A dynamic development of black culture.
(d) A history of reclaiming the self from slavery.

5. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?
(a) Blacks generally.
(b) Slavers.
(c) Free blacks.
(d) Slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?

2. What horrified Richard Wright in Gilroy's account?

3. What phenomenon will help us understand race theory in Gilroy's account?

4. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?

5. What does the concept of the diaspora help with in Gilroy's opinion?

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