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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 say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As a conjunction of races.
(b) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(c) As a long cooperative experiment.
(d) As the collision of two defined cultures.

2. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To try to hide the past away.
(b) To look it in the face.
(c) To live with what is in the present.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

3. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.
(b) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(c) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(d) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Inescapable.
(b) Essential.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Clearly absurd.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.
(b) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.
(c) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.
(d) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

3. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

4. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

5. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?

(see the answer key)

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