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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.
(b) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.
(c) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.
(d) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The abolition movement.
(b) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) The methods of narrating black history.
(d) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.

4. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Race.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) Socialism.

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Racial relativism.
(b) Cultural historicism.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

3. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

4. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

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

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