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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 did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) Class consciousness.
(b) Resistance to industrialism.
(c) A collective identity.
(d) Political power.

2. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1812.

3. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(b) Obscure racial realities.
(c) Redistribute wealth.
(d) Advance poor and ignorant people.

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

5. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Intellectual, hip, wise.
(b) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(c) Cool, aloof, suave.
(d) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

2. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

3. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

4. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

(see the answer key)

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