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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. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(b) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(c) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(d) In light of radical Islam's hostility.

2. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
(a) Relativist.
(b) Pluralist.
(c) Essentialist.
(d) Monotheist.

3. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Equal voting rights for black women.
(b) Black roots.
(c) African customs in slave cultures.
(d) Modern scientific terms for race.

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of modernity.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) Utopian visions.
(d) The idea of capitalism.

5. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It confirms it.
(b) It breaks it.
(c) It balances it.
(d) It defines it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

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

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

5. Who does Gilroy say DuBois was analyzing in The Souls of Black Folk?

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