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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 characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of hostility.
(b) A process of liberation.
(c) An act of mourning.
(d) An internalized history.

2. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Unique.
(c) Decentralized.
(d) Ancient.

3. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Gilroy.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) W. E. B. DuBois.

4. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has defined the counter-culture.
(b) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(c) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(d) It has been ignored.

5. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) When he bought another man's freedom.
(b) When he asked to vote.
(c) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(d) In early childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?

2. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?

3. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

4. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

5. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

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