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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 cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Articulating political unrest.
(b) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(c) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(d) Assuaging political unrest.

2. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Escape it.
(b) Repossess it.
(c) Commercialize it.
(d) Deny it.

3. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Salvation theology.
(b) Self-reliance.
(c) Freedom from history.
(d) Revolutionary apocalypse.

4. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the moral blight on modernity.
(b) As an exception to Western civilization.
(c) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(d) As central to Western culture.

5. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(b) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.
(c) New forms of art in white culture.
(d) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?

2. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

3. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

4. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

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