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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. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Tenuous.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Unsteady.
(d) Secure.

2. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Resentment of progress.
(b) Anger for being taken into exile.
(c) Ambivalence about modernity.
(d) Longing for the apocalypse.

3. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?
(a) Power.
(b) Industry.
(c) Technology.
(d) Sexuality.

4. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-contact North America.
(b) A history of blacks in the new world.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of race relations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?

2. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

3. What does the concept of the diaspora help with in Gilroy's opinion?

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

5. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

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