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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.
(b) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.
(c) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(d) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.

3. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Exile from home.
(b) Liberation from slavery.
(c) Acceptance of slavery.
(d) Surviving the leap to modernism.

4. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Precision.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Performance.
(d) Tradition.

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Racial relativism.
(b) Cultural historicism.
(c) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(d) Equal pay.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

2. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?

3. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

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