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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 does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Empowers oppressed minorities.
(b) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(c) Obscures racial differences.
(d) Provides a false sense of power and identity.

2. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(b) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(c) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(d) Primitive culture and modern culture.

3. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Kant.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Hegel.

4. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a collision of cultures.
(b) As a unit of cultural analysis.
(c) As a period in race relations.
(d) As a form of economic exchange.

5. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(b) When he asked to vote.
(c) In early childhood.
(d) When he bought another man's freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

3. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

4. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?

5. What feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?

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