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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 does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(b) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(c) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(d) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.

2. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(b) Redistribute wealth.
(c) Obscure racial realities.
(d) Advance poor and ignorant people.

3. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are not coherent.
(c) They are contain stereotypes.
(d) They are already outdated.

4. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Drama.

5. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Rebelliousness.
(b) Terror.
(c) Homelessness.
(d) Longing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?

2. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

3. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

4. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

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

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