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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. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?
(a) He felt aloof from American race politics because he was born in England.
(b) He felt genuinely black because he was born in Africa.
(c) He felt inauthentically black because he was not born in the south.
(d) He felt like a spokesman for his race because he was born among them in the south.

2. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Primarily interested.
(b) Excessively interested.
(c) Casually interested.
(d) Uninterested.

3. 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.

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

5. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Race.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

3. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

5. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

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