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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. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(b) In early childhood.
(c) When he asked to vote.
(d) When he bought another man's freedom.

2. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
(a) They are endangered throughout the world, not just in the black Atlantic.
(b) We cannot recover them once they are lost.
(c) We can regain them if they are still practiced somewhere.
(d) They are the source of all opposition to modernity.

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

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

5. What are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) Revenge and nostalgia for home.
(b) Anomie and world-weariness.
(c) Exile and terror.
(d) Disorientation and displacement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

2. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?

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

4. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?

5. What were Richard Wright's politics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Describe the pan-Africanism movement which Richard Wright was part of.

5. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?

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

7. What origin legitimized Richard Wright in readers' eyes?

8. What were Richard Wright's politics?

9. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

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

(see the answer keys)

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