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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 about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be recognized as a form of communication.
(b) It should be higher.
(c) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(d) It should be used as a political tool.

2. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Commercialize it.
(b) Escape it.
(c) Repossess it.
(d) Deny it.

3. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(c) Salvation theology.
(d) Freedom from history.

4. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Kant.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Anecdotal introduction.
(b) Humorous analogy.
(c) Historical perspective.
(d) Conceptual background.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

2. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

3. What does music represent, according to Gilroy?

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

5. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

(see the answer key)

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