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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) Resistance to industrialism.
(b) Class consciousness.
(c) Political power.
(d) A collective identity.

2. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1812.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1865.

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The suburbs.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) The mall.
(d) The factory.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Holistic.
(b) Fractured.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Contingent.

5. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(b) Assuaging political unrest.
(c) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(d) Articulating political unrest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

4. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?

2. How does Gilroy describe the black experience in England?

3. What is the problem with a black identity rooted in skin color for Gilroy?

4. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?

5. What does the search for black roots indicate to Gilroy?

6. How does Gilroy describe the modern self and how does this affect our narratives of history?

7. How does Gilroy propose the concept of the black Atlantic should be used?

8. What criticism does Gilroy make of Enlightenment universalist claims?

9. What is nationalism's role in the conceptualization of race, according to Gilroy?

10. What does Gilroy use as opposition to the essential blackness some critics advocate?

(see the answer keys)

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