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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 suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the moral blight on modernity.
(b) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(c) As an exception to Western civilization.
(d) As central to Western culture.

2. 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.

3. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1812.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Essential.
(b) Clearly absurd.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Inescapable.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Demotic.
(b) Elite.
(c) Quotidian.
(d) Proletariat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

3. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

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

5. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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