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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. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a source of power.
(b) As ancient essences.
(c) As a process of movement and mediation.
(d) As a hidden history.

2. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As the fulfillment of history.
(b) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(c) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(d) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.

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

4. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To look it in the face.
(b) To try to hide the past away.
(c) To live with what is in the present.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

5. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) African drummers.
(b) Abolition singers.
(c) Southern blues singers.
(d) Appalachian spiritualists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

2. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

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

5. What does Gilroy say slavery was sanctified by?

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