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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. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(b) As the collision of two defined cultures.
(c) As a conjunction of races.
(d) As a long cooperative experiment.

2. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of race relations.
(b) A history of pre-contact North America.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of pre-slavery Africa.

3. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(b) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(c) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(d) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.

4. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) An abolitionist.
(b) The father of black nationalism.
(c) A historian.
(d) A cultural critic who wrote about race.

5. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Ethnographers'.
(b) Cultural studies'.
(c) Black peoples'.
(d) Writers'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

2. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

3. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

4. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

5. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

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