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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 ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?
(a) The ideology of personal emancipation.
(b) The ideology of family.
(c) The ideology of self-reliance.
(d) The ideology of racial progress.

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

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

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?
(a) Condescending.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Restless.
(d) Dry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?

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

3. What were Richard Wright's politics?

4. What does Gilroy say we should discuss?

5. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Richard Wright's feeling about white culture?

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

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

4. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?

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

6. What were Richard Wright's politics?

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

8. What is the importance of the theme of love and loss in black popular arts, according to Gilroy?

9. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

10. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?

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