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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. Why has the analysis of Wright's work been impoverished according to Gilroy?
(a) Because he moved away from the U.S.
(b) Because he was pigeon-holed as a sexist.
(c) Because Wright was so ambivalent in his writing.
(d) Because he has been misinterpreted.

2. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To live with what is in the present.
(b) To look it in the face.
(c) To try to hide the past away.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

3. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) The pain of slavery.
(b) Terror at industrial culture.
(c) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(d) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Holistic.
(c) Contingent.
(d) Fractured.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

2. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

4. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

5. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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