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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 Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
(a) Apologists.
(b) Relativists.
(c) Essentialists.
(d) Anti-essentialists.

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

3. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The hangman's noose.
(b) The livery coat.
(c) The slave ship.
(d) The slave plantation.

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

5. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The abolition movement.
(b) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(c) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) The methods of narrating black history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

2. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

3. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

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

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