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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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) The nation-state.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Race.

2. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?
(a) Forestalling cultural conflict.
(b) Appropriating different cultures.
(c) Blurring the lines between selves.
(d) Resolving cultural conflict.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

2. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?

3. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

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

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