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

2. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Secure.
(c) Unsteady.
(d) Tenuous.

3. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) Black roots.
(c) African customs in slave cultures.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

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

5. What is the aim of Chapter 6?
(a) To demonstrate the ambivalence toward 'tradition' in black communities.
(b) To describe the ways tradition has been harmful to the black experience.
(c) To narrate the he says that of tradition as a concept in the black experience.
(d) To cast tradition as something other than modernity's opposite.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?

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

4. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?

5. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?

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