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

2. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are not coherent.
(c) They are already outdated.
(d) They are contain stereotypes.

3. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) American literature.
(b) American pragmatism.
(c) International Marxism.
(d) Confidence in modernism.

4. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A dynamic alliance.
(c) A hegemonic empire.
(d) A global arts and entertainment empire.

5. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Primarily interested.
(b) Casually interested.
(c) Excessively interested.
(d) Uninterested.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

3. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

4. What does music represent, according to Gilroy?

5. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

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