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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. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1812.

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

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

4. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Assuaging political unrest.
(b) Articulating political unrest.
(c) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(d) Numbing people to modern atrocities.

5. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Pluralistic.
(b) Modern.
(c) Accommodationist.
(d) Essential.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

2. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?

3. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

4. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

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

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