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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. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The free black's.
(b) The woman's.
(c) The slave owner's.
(d) The slave's.

2. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) A simplification of racial concepts.
(b) A historical context for ideas of race.
(c) Transnational perspective.
(d) New definitions of the races.

3. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of capitalism.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) The idea of modernity.
(d) Utopian visions.

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

5. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has been ignored.
(b) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(c) It has defined the counter-culture.
(d) It has been central to definitions of modernity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

2. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?

3. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

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

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