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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Sublime and unfathomable.
(c) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.
(d) A source of modern ritual.

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

4. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) New forms of art in white culture.
(b) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(c) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.
(d) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.

5. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It lumps dissimilar people together.
(b) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.
(c) It obscures realities.
(d) It gives individuals too much freedom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?

5. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

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