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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 limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too cosmopolitan.
(b) They are too rural.
(c) They are too essentialist.
(d) They are too nationalistic.

2. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The suburbs.
(b) The factory.
(c) The mall.
(d) The ghetto.

3. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
(a) Because he has been misinterpreted.
(b) Because Wright was so ambivalent in his writing.
(c) Because he was pigeon-holed as a sexist.
(d) Because he moved away from the U.S.

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(b) It is not honest.
(c) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(d) It is not holistic.

5. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After World War II.
(b) After the American Revolution.
(c) After the American Civil War.
(d) After the Great War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

2. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?

3. What kinds of stories does Gilroy say dominate black popular culture?

4. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?

5. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?

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