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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?
(a) Emotional indifference to suffering.
(b) Genocidal terror.
(c) Tolerance of cultural differences.
(d) The black experience.

2. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Pan-Africanism.
(b) Social perfection.
(c) Essential blackness.
(d) Returning to black roots.

3. How did Richard Wright want to present blacks in his books?
(a) As agents in the oppression of others.
(b) As something other than victims.
(c) As victims of white power.
(d) As collaborators in their own oppression.

4. What conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between man and technology.
(b) The conflict between young and old.
(c) The conflict between owners and workers.
(d) The conflict between men and women.

5. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
(a) Cultural affiliation.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) The demands of his national and racial identifies.
(d) Family ties.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?

3. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

4. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

2. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

3. What was James Weldon Johnson's contribution to Gilroy's book?

4. What did DuBois conclude from his observations of black culture?

5. What did DuBois argue was the only way to deal with the brutality of modern civilized life in the South?

6. What relation does Gilroy draw between the black Atlantic and the Holocaust?

7. Describe the role of the concept of tradition in the black Atlantic.

8. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?

9. Why, in Gilroy's opinion, is tradition useful in modern black culture?

10. Why was Wright criticized for his characterizations, according to Gilroy?

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