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

2. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Africans.
(d) Anglo-Africans.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Unifying.
(b) Divisive.
(c) Skeptical.
(d) Intellectual.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

2. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?

3. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

4. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

5. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

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