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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 DuBois often reminded blacks?
(a) That slavery was the worst thing people could suffer.
(b) That slavery was not the worst form of domination.
(c) That slavery was a finite stage in the development of the world consciousness.
(d) That slavery was worse than cultural collapse.

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Inescapable.
(b) Essential.
(c) Clearly absurd.
(d) Tragic.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

2. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?

3. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?

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