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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 is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Cultural historicism.
(b) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Racial relativism.

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A shameful secret.
(b) An untold story.
(c) A key part.
(d) A footnote.

3. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To communicate with each other over distances.
(b) To invoke their racial memories.
(c) To express their pain.
(d) To preserve their ancient culture.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

3. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

4. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

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