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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 was the journal 'Presence Africaine' published?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1958.

2. What does Gilroy say tradition helps to do with regard to slavery?
(a) Avoid its memory.
(b) Revise its effects.
(c) Transform its legacy.
(d) Cauterize its pain.

3. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Individualism.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Common privation.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

2. Why would blacks be urged to forget slavery?

3. What does Gilroy say modernism relies on?

4. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?

5. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gilroy say DuBois reminded blacks?

2. What are the three modes of thinking, seeing and being which DuBois says are the basis of double consciousness?

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

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

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

6. What were Richard Wright's politics?

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

8. Describe the role of the concept of tradition in the black Atlantic.

9. What did DuBois conclude from his observations of black culture?

10. What was DuBois' relation with blackness?

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