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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 distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright was the first black writer to achieve?
(a) Bestseller status in the U.S.
(b) Bestseller status in Europe.
(c) The Pullitzer Price for fiction.
(d) Recognition by the international literary establishment.

2. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of nostalgia for home.
(b) The state of displacement from the self.
(c) The state of being in pain.
(d) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.

3. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Inbreeding.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Exogamy.
(d) Racial heterogeneity.

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery?
(a) Complex.
(b) Brutal.
(c) Equivocal.
(d) Multi-faceted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

2. Where does Gilroy say Richard Wright's profundity came from?

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

4. What does Gilroy say slavery tried to do to tradition?

5. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What, in Gilroy's account, was Richard Wright's thinking about racial identity?

2. What tension did politics create in black culture?

3. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?

4. What is the relationship between black and Jewish cultures, as Gilroy defines it?

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

6. How does blackness function in DuBois' writing, as Gilroy describes it?

7. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

8. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?

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

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

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