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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 feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Longing.
(b) Homelessness.
(c) Rebelliousness.
(d) Terror.
2. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As ancient essences.
(b) As a source of power.
(c) As a process of movement and mediation.
(d) As a hidden history.
3. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Black music.
(b) Black self-reliance.
(c) Returning to Africa.
(d) Political autonomy.
4. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?
(a) England.
(b) Africa.
(c) The north.
(d) The south.
5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The factory owners'.
(b) The modern workers'.
(c) The white European's.
(d) The liberated woman's.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
2. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?
3. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
4. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
5. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
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