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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 was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Black roots.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

2. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?
(a) Forestalling cultural conflict.
(b) Blurring the lines between selves.
(c) Appropriating different cultures.
(d) Resolving cultural conflict.

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

4. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The white European's.
(b) The modern workers'.
(c) The factory owners'.
(d) The liberated woman's.

5. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(b) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(c) That race has its own uniqueness.
(d) That race is ultimately optional.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

2. What is the first period of black history, according to DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk?

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

4. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

5. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?

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