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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.
(b) Fetishize it.
(c) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.
(d) Subsume it into working class consciousness.

3. What primary experience shaped violence in the black community according to Gilroy?
(a) Factory production.
(b) Capitalist exploitation.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Modern marriage.

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

5. What does Gilroy say slavery tried to do to tradition?
(a) Co-opt it.
(b) Erase it.
(c) Rewrite it.
(d) Compete with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say blacks are different from Jews?

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

3. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

5. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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