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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 criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are not coherent.
(b) They are contain stereotypes.
(c) They are already outdated.
(d) They are too homogenous.

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of mourning.
(b) An act of hostility.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) A process of liberation.

4. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Hierarchical.
(b) Non-dominating.
(c) Non-violent.
(d) Liberating.

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A dynamic alliance.
(c) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(d) A hegemonic empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

3. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

4. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

5. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

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