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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are yearning and mourning associated with in black culture according to Gilroy?
(a) Anomie and world-weariness.
(b) Revenge and nostalgia for home.
(c) Disorientation and displacement.
(d) Exile and terror.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?
(a) International and collaborative with white culture.
(b) Pluralistic and diasporic.
(c) Essentialist and rooted.
(d) Indistinguishable from modernity.

3. What does Gilroy say modernism relies on?
(a) A sense of transformation, and an evolution from the past.
(b) A sense of justice, and a development of political institutions.
(c) A sense of time and a break with the past.
(d) A sense of progress, and a continuity with the past.

4. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Racial suffering.
(b) Technological changes.
(c) Economic prosperity.
(d) Medical developments.

5. Which factor did NOT divide black subjectivity according to Gilroy's account of Richard Wright's thought?
(a) The demands of his national and racial identifies.
(b) Citizenship.
(c) Cultural affiliation.
(d) Family ties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

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

3. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?

4. How does Gilroy turn away from Richard Wright at the end of The Black Atlantic?

5. What function does the first chapter serve?

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