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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) A process of liberation.
(b) An internalized history.
(c) An act of mourning.
(d) An act of hostility.

3. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Social perfection.
(b) Essential blackness.
(c) Returning to black roots.
(d) Pan-Africanism.

4. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.
(c) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(d) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.

5. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Money.
(b) Intellectual demonstrations of power.
(c) Exaggerated masculinity.
(d) Political power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

2. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

4. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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