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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 pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Divisive.
(c) Unifying.
(d) Intellectual.

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(b) It is not holistic.
(c) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(d) It is not honest.

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

4. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Drama.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Poetry.

5. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To invoke their racial memories.
(b) To communicate with each other over distances.
(c) To preserve their ancient culture.
(d) To express their pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?

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

3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

4. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

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

(see the answer key)

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