The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Paul Gilroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Paul Gilroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Sibling.
(c) Stepparent.
(d) Father.

2. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Cultural studies'.
(b) Ethnographers'.
(c) Writers'.
(d) Black peoples'.

3. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Africa.
(c) Immigration.
(d) Slavery.

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A footnote.
(b) A key part.
(c) An untold story.
(d) A shameful secret.

5. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Kant.
(d) Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?

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

3. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

5. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

(see the answer key)

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