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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 does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Confirms them.
(b) Revises them.
(c) Explodes them.
(d) Challenges them.

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

3. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
(a) Relativists.
(b) Essentialists.
(c) Anti-essentialists.
(d) Apologists.

4. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(b) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(c) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(d) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.

5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The factory owners'.
(b) The liberated woman's.
(c) The white European's.
(d) The modern workers'.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

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

5. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

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