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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 role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has defined the counter-culture.
(b) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(c) It has been ignored.
(d) It has been central to definitions of modernity.

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

3. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Anger for being taken into exile.
(b) Longing for the apocalypse.
(c) Ambivalence about modernity.
(d) Resentment of progress.

4. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?
(a) Terror.
(b) Profit.
(c) Communalism.
(d) Productivity.

5. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Articulating political unrest.
(b) Numbing people to modern atrocities.
(c) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(d) Assuaging political unrest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

2. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

4. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

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

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