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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 ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of nostalgia for home.
(b) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.
(c) The state of displacement from the self.
(d) The state of being in pain.

2. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was criticized for?
(a) Writing men and women who are victims of the capitalist system.
(b) Failing to write about specifically American concerns.
(c) Hatred of women.
(d) Writing misogynistic male characters.

3. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.
(b) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.
(c) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.
(d) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.

4. What does Gilroy say Afrocentrism is really?
(a) Internationalism.
(b) Ethnicity protecting its flanks.
(c) Proletarianism.
(d) Americocentrism.

5. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) Music.
(b) A political agenda.
(c) Art.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?

2. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?

3. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?

4. What phenomenon will help us understand race theory in Gilroy's account?

5. What does Gilroy say we should accept as inescapable?

Short Essay Questions

1. What distinction does Gilroy say Richard Wright holds?

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

3. In what way was capitalist culture a kind of crisis in itself, Wright?

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

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

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

7. How does Gilroy say DuBois described black music?

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

9. 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?

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

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