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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 characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Casually interested.
(b) Uninterested.
(c) Excessively interested.
(d) Primarily interested.

2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A hegemonic empire.
(c) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(d) A dynamic alliance.

3. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?
(a) Pluralistic and diasporic.
(b) International and collaborative with white culture.
(c) Indistinguishable from modernity.
(d) Essentialist and rooted.

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Utopian visions.
(b) The idea of capitalism.
(c) Modern visions of socialism.
(d) The idea of modernity.

5. What does Gilroy say is wrong with contemporary criticism of African-American literature?
(a) Essentialism.
(b) Uncritical acceptance of all things primitive.
(c) Relativism.
(d) Over-polarized vocabulary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

2. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

4. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?

5. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?

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