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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.
(b) A source of modern ritual.
(c) Sublime and unfathomable.
(d) Mysterious.

3. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) Ethnic absolutism.
(b) Cultural relativism.
(c) Revisionism.
(d) American essentialism.

4. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(b) It should be higher.
(c) It should be used as a political tool.
(d) It should be recognized as a form of communication.

5. What feeling did DuBois see in the culture of diaspora blacks?
(a) Anger for being taken into exile.
(b) Ambivalence about modernity.
(c) Longing for the apocalypse.
(d) Resentment of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

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

3. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

4. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?

5. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?

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