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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. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?
(a) Free blacks.
(b) Slavers.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Blacks generally.

2. Where did Richard Wright develop his ideas about race?
(a) In his world travels.
(b) London.
(c) Chicago.
(d) In the American south.

3. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Ambivalence about modernity.
(b) Longing for the apocalypse.
(c) Resentment of progress.
(d) Anger for being taken into exile.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?
(a) Dry.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Condescending.
(d) Restless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?

2. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?

3. What did Richard Wright criticize, according to Gilroy?

4. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?

5. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was James Weldon Johnson's contribution to Gilroy's book?

2. Why do Jews and blacks both resist the comparison of slavery and the Holocaust, as Gilroy describes it?

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

4. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

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

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

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

8. What were Richard Wright's politics?

9. How does blackness function in DuBois' writing, as Gilroy describes it?

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

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