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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 say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Uniqueness.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Peace.
(d) Unprecedented power.

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

3. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The free black's.
(b) The slave's.
(c) The woman's.
(d) The slave owner's.

4. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Pluralistic.
(b) Accommodationist.
(c) Essential.
(d) Modern.

5. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The mall.
(b) The factory.
(c) The ghetto.
(d) The suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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