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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 modern historical conditions require of race concepts?
(a) Essentialism.
(b) Return to origins.
(c) Developmental progression.
(d) Practical applications.

2. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(b) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(c) Primitive culture and modern culture.
(d) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.

3. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.
(b) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.
(c) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.
(d) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.

4. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Inbreeding.
(b) Miscegenation.
(c) Racial heterogeneity.
(d) Exogamy.

5. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Challenges them.
(b) Confirms them.
(c) Revises them.
(d) Explodes them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

2. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

4. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

5. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

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