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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 black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Tradition.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Performance.
(d) Precision.

2. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.
(b) To look it in the face.
(c) To try to hide the past away.
(d) To live with what is in the present.

3. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?
(a) Force.
(b) Cultural superiority.
(c) God and reason.
(d) History.

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

5. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) Confidence in modernism.
(b) American pragmatism.
(c) American literature.
(d) International Marxism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?

2. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

3. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?

4. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

5. What function does the first chapter serve?

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