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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 characterize the modern self?
(a) Fractured.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Holistic.
(d) Contingent.

2. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Provides a false sense of power and identity.
(b) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(c) Obscures racial differences.
(d) Empowers oppressed minorities.

3. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Liberating.
(b) Non-dominating.
(c) Hierarchical.
(d) Non-violent.

4. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has defined the counter-culture.
(b) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(c) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(d) It has been ignored.

5. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After World War II.
(b) After the American Revolution.
(c) After the American Civil War.
(d) After the Great War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

2. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

3. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

4. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

5. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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