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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 does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Performance.
(b) Precision.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Tradition.

2. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(b) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.
(c) Cool, aloof, suave.
(d) Intellectual, hip, wise.

3. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Decentralized.
(b) Unique.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Neurotic.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(b) As the fulfillment of history.
(c) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.
(d) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

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

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

(see the answer key)

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