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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(b) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(c) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(d) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Quotidian.
(b) Proletariat.
(c) Elite.
(d) Demotic.

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Equal voting rights for black women.
(d) Black roots.

6. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(b) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.
(c) They are not well theorized.
(d) They do not fit into neat categories.

7. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) The pain of slavery.
(b) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.
(c) Terror at industrial culture.
(d) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.

8. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) African roots.
(b) Tools for assimilating.
(c) Core blackness.
(d) More innovative musical forms.

9. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Exile.
(c) Slave mentality.
(d) Insecurity.

10. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
(a) His cosmopolitan culture.
(b) His success in Europe.
(c) His exposure to voodoo.
(d) His experiences in Africa.

11. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(b) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.
(c) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(d) A theme to improvise on as he continues.

12. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Unprecedented power.
(c) Uniqueness.
(d) Peace.

13. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(b) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(c) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(d) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.

14. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It lumps dissimilar people together.
(b) It gives individuals too much freedom.
(c) It obscures realities.
(d) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.

15. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?
(a) Industry.
(b) Technology.
(c) Power.
(d) Sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

3. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

4. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

5. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

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