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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 does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(b) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(c) A theme to improvise on as he continues.
(d) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.

2. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race has its own uniqueness.
(b) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(c) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(d) That race is ultimately optional.

3. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) The nation-state.
(c) Race.
(d) Socialism.

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not honest.
(b) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(c) It is not holistic.
(d) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.

5. What conflict was taking up too much space in the discussion of race in American literature according to Richard Wright?
(a) The conflict between owners and workers.
(b) The conflict between young and old.
(c) The conflict between men and women.
(d) The conflict between man and technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

2. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

4. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?

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

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