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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. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Hegel.
(b) W. E. B. DuBois.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Gilroy.

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

3. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(b) The pain of slavery.
(c) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.
(d) Terror at industrial culture.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Sublime and unfathomable.
(c) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.
(d) A source of modern ritual.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Essential.
(b) Inescapable.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Clearly absurd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

2. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

3. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

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

5. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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