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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 image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave plantation.
(b) The slave ship.
(c) The hangman's noose.
(d) The livery coat.

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

3. 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.

4. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(b) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(c) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(d) A hermeneutics of liberty.

5. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.
(b) Subsume it into working class consciousness.
(c) Fetishize it.
(d) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

2. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

3. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

4. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

5. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?

(see the answer key)

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