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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(c) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(d) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.

2. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) Appalachian spiritualists.
(b) African drummers.
(c) Southern blues singers.
(d) Abolition singers.

3. 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-contact North America.
(c) A history of race relations.
(d) A history of pre-slavery Africa.

4. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(b) That race has its own uniqueness.
(c) That race is ultimately optional.
(d) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.

5. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) Revisionism.
(b) American essentialism.
(c) Cultural relativism.
(d) Ethnic absolutism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?

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

3. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?

4. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

5. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

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