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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. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(b) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.
(c) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(d) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.

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

3. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(b) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.
(c) The pain of slavery.
(d) Terror at industrial culture.

4. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?
(a) Entrepreneurship.
(b) Blacks helping blacks.
(c) Returning to black roots.
(d) Social construction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

2. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?

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

5. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

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