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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. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?
(a) As a representative of his race.
(b) As an exception to his race.
(c) As an artist.
(d) As a scion of a new race.

2. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?
(a) To make peaceful relations with Jews.
(b) To recognize that their culture is part of a larger cultural development.
(c) To accept their place in Western civilization.
(d) To build bridges to white culture.

3. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(b) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Primitive culture and modern culture.

4. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To live with what is in the present.
(b) To try to hide the past away.
(c) To look it in the face.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

5. What is the effect of turning toward tradition in Gilroy's account?
(a) Slavery gets repossessed.
(b) Slavery becomes more remote.
(c) Slavery comes into focus as a foundational catastrophe.
(d) Slavery becomes a cultural asset.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ideology was Richard Wright ambivalent to according to Gilroy?

2. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?

3. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?

4. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was criticized for?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tension did politics create in black culture?

2. What idea was undermined, in Richard Wright's mind, by the violence of modern American culture?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

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

9. How does Gilroy characterize the ontological state of slavery?

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

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