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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 feeling does Gilroy say forms the foundation of the black Atlantic?
(a) Rebelliousness.
(b) Homelessness.
(c) Terror.
(d) Longing.

2. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Inbreeding.
(b) Exogamy.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Racial heterogeneity.

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too cosmopolitan.
(b) They are too essentialist.
(c) They are too rural.
(d) They are too nationalistic.

4. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?
(a) Cosmopolitan.
(b) Communal.
(c) Alienated.
(d) Individualized.

5. What did the struggle for black autonomy involve, for DuBois?
(a) Returning to black roots.
(b) Social construction.
(c) Blacks helping blacks.
(d) Entrepreneurship.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

4. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

5. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

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