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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 does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
(a) The limits of rationality.
(b) The destructive potential of bureaucracies.
(c) The numbness to human suffering that comes from modernism.
(d) The murderous potential in technology.

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

3. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Exile.
(d) Slave mentality.

4. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-contact North America.
(b) A history of blacks in the new world.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of race relations.

5. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?
(a) A prophecy of a homeland.
(b) Wandering for a time.
(c) A home unto himself.
(d) Homeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?

2. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?

3. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

4. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

5. What are blacks asked to remember instead of slavery?

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