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

2. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?
(a) By many routes.
(b) Straight from his roots.
(c) By choice.
(d) Accidentally.

3. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(b) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.
(c) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(d) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.

4. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) A political agenda.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

5. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The livery coat.
(b) The slave plantation.
(c) The slave ship.
(d) The hangman's noose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

2. What does the concept of the diaspora help with in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?

4. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

5. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?

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