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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 limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too nationalistic.
(b) They are too rural.
(c) They are too cosmopolitan.
(d) They are too essentialist.

2. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race has its own uniqueness.
(b) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(c) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(d) That race is ultimately optional.

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

4. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) Abolition singers.
(b) Appalachian spiritualists.
(c) African drummers.
(d) Southern blues singers.

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A hegemonic empire.
(c) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(d) A dynamic alliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

2. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

3. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

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

5. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?

(see the answer key)

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