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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) Recognition by the international literary establishment.
(b) Bestseller status in Europe.
(c) The Pullitzer Price for fiction.
(d) Bestseller status in the U.S.

2. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) A dynamic development of black culture.
(b) A chance to invent tradition going forward.
(c) A history of reclaiming the self from slavery.
(d) A world of opportunities in industrialism capitalism.

3. 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 build bridges to white culture.
(d) To accept their place in Western civilization.

4. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) Reconciliation with white culture.
(b) Assimilation.
(c) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(d) A closed racial community.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say blacks are different from Jews?

2. What are blacks asked to remember instead of slavery?

3. What were Richard Wright's politics?

4. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?

5. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

4. Why was Wright criticized for his characterizations, according to Gilroy?

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

6. What were Richard Wright's politics?

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

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 tension did politics create in black culture?

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

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