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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Pluralistic.
(b) Essential.
(c) Accommodationist.
(d) Modern.

3. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(b) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(c) A dynamic alliance.
(d) A hegemonic empire.

4. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of blacks in the new world.
(b) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(c) A history of pre-contact North America.
(d) A history of race relations.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of mourning.
(b) An act of hostility.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) A process of liberation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?

2. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

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

4. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

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