The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of? (from Chapter 5, Without the Consolation of Tears, Richard Wright, France and the Ambivalence of Community)

The consolation of tears.

The power of voyeurism.

The consolation of philosophy.

The language of black culture.

2.

What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy? (from Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity)

It breaks it.

It defines it.

It confirms it.

It balances it.

3.

What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy? (from Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity)

Liberating.

Non-dominating.

Hierarchical.

Non-violent.

4.

What is the effect of turning toward tradition in Gilroy's account? (from Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime)

Slavery becomes a cultural asset.

Slavery gets repossessed.

Slavery becomes more remote.

Slavery comes into focus as a foundational catastrophe.

5.

When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time? (from Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement)

When he asked to vote.

Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.

When he bought another man's freedom.

In early childhood.

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