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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 has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Modern visions of socialism.
(b) The idea of modernity.
(c) The idea of capitalism.
(d) Utopian visions.

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

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Casually interested.
(b) Excessively interested.
(c) Uninterested.
(d) Primarily interested.

5. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Slave mentality.
(c) Insecurity.
(d) Exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?

2. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

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

4. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

5. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

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