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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Father.
(b) Stepparent.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Sibling.

2. 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.

3. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(b) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(c) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(d) A hermeneutics of salvation.

4. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Exaggerated masculinity.
(b) Money.
(c) Political power.
(d) Intellectual demonstrations of power.

5. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?
(a) Deny it.
(b) Escape it.
(c) Commercialize it.
(d) Repossess it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

2. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?

3. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

4. What term did James Weldon Johnson use for blacks in The Autobiography of An Ex-Coloured Man?

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

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