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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Without the Consolation of Tears, Richard Wright, France and the Ambivalence of Community.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Richard Wright want to deprive white people of?
(a) The power of voyeurism.
(b) The consolation of philosophy.
(c) The consolation of tears.
(d) The language of black culture.

2. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?
(a) 1870s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1920s.

3. What does Gilroy say gave Richard Wright his authenticity?
(a) His birth in Chicago.
(b) His origins in Mississippi.
(c) His travels to Africa.
(d) His political activities.

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It balances it.
(b) It confirms it.
(c) It breaks it.
(d) It defines it.

5. How did Richard Wright want to present blacks in his books?
(a) As something other than victims.
(b) As victims of white power.
(c) As agents in the oppression of others.
(d) As collaborators in their own oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

3. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

4. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

5. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

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