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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) Revisionism.
(b) Ethnic absolutism.
(c) Cultural relativism.
(d) American essentialism.

2. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Conceptual background.
(b) Humorous analogy.
(c) Historical perspective.
(d) Anecdotal introduction.

3. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has defined the counter-culture.
(b) It has been ignored.
(c) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(d) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.

4. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?
(a) Pro- and anti-Africa feelings.
(b) Nationalist and internationalist beliefs.
(c) Abolitionist and pro-slavery convictions.
(d) Radical and conservative nationalism.

5. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are not well theorized.
(b) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(c) They do not fit into neat categories.
(d) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

3. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

4. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?

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

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