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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 was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The abolition movement.
(b) The methods of narrating black history.
(c) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(d) The Fugitive Slave Law.

2. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Unsteady.
(b) Secure.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Tenuous.

3. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It gives individuals too much freedom.
(b) It obscures realities.
(c) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.
(d) It lumps dissimilar people together.

4. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are not coherent.
(c) They are already outdated.
(d) They are contain stereotypes.

5. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Communist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

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

3. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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