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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. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The ghetto.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) The factory.
(d) The mall.

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not holistic.
(b) It is not honest.
(c) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(d) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.

3. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) Anglo-Africans.
(c) Africans.
(d) African-Americans.

4. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The liberated woman's.
(b) The modern workers'.
(c) The white European's.
(d) The factory owners'.

5. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Drama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

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

3. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

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

5. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

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