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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 Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race is ultimately optional.
(b) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(c) That race has its own uniqueness.
(d) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.

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

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

4. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Medical developments.
(b) Racial suffering.
(c) Economic prosperity.
(d) Technological changes.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) Sublime and unfathomable.
(b) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.
(c) A source of modern ritual.
(d) Mysterious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

2. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

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

5. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

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