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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Without the Consolation of Tears, Richard Wright, France and the Ambivalence of Community.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) More innovative musical forms.
(b) Core blackness.
(c) Tools for assimilating.
(d) African roots.

2. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
(a) Apologists.
(b) Essentialists.
(c) Relativists.
(d) Anti-essentialists.

3. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Racial relativism.
(b) Cultural historicism.
(c) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(d) Equal pay.

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

5. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.
(b) The idea of inalienable rights.
(c) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(d) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

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

3. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

4. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

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