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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 does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It breaks it.
(b) It confirms it.
(c) It defines it.
(d) It balances it.
2. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.
(b) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.
(c) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.
(d) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.
3. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(b) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(c) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(d) A hermeneutics of salvation.
4. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Equal voting rights for black women.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Modern scientific terms for race.
(d) Black roots.
5. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave plantation.
(b) The slave ship.
(c) The hangman's noose.
(d) The livery coat.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
2. How does Gilroy defend Richard Wright against charges of sexism?
3. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
4. How was Richard Wright received, according to Gilroy?
5. What does Gilroy say the Holocaust should help us see?
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