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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 Gilroy say slavery tried to do to tradition?
(a) Co-opt it.
(b) Compete with it.
(c) Erase it.
(d) Rewrite it.
2. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?
(a) God and reason.
(b) Cultural superiority.
(c) History.
(d) Force.
3. What are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) Disorientation and displacement.
(b) Anomie and world-weariness.
(c) Exile and terror.
(d) Revenge and nostalgia for home.
4. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) In the American south.
(b) In his world travels.
(c) London.
(d) Chicago.
5. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) It hides the differences between black experiences.
(b) It forms the basis for pan-Africanism.
(c) It repairs the connection with Africa.
(d) It asserts the kinship of cultural forms.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gilroy associate racial traditions with?
2. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
3. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?
4. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?
5. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way was capitalist culture a kind of crisis in itself, Wright?
2. Why do Jews and blacks both resist the comparison of slavery and the Holocaust, as Gilroy describes it?
3. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?
4. Describe the role of the concept of tradition in the black Atlantic.
5. What is the importance of the theme of love and loss in black popular arts, according to Gilroy?
6. Describe the pan-Africanism movement which Richard Wright was part of.
7. What does Gilroy say politics did for black culture?
8. How does Gilroy say the discussion he has had in 'Black Atlantic' is likely to help in the twenty-first century, when Western culture faces challenges over resources and sustainability?
9. What does Gilroy have to say about violence in American culture?
10. What did DuBois conclude from his observations of black culture?
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