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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 kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of race relations.
(b) A history of pre-contact North America.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of pre-slavery Africa.

2. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Freedom from history.
(b) Salvation theology.
(c) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(d) Self-reliance.

3. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Slave mentality.
(d) Exile.

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

5. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(b) The idea of inalienable rights.
(c) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.
(d) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

3. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?

4. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

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

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