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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. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Liberating.
(b) Non-dominating.
(c) Hierarchical.
(d) Non-violent.

2. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(b) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.
(c) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(d) It is now confused.

3. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) New forms of art in white culture.
(b) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(c) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.
(d) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.

4. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To look it in the face.
(b) To try to hide the past away.
(c) To live with what is in the present.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

5. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?
(a) American literature.
(b) International Marxism.
(c) Confidence in modernism.
(d) American pragmatism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

2. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?

3. When did Richard Wright believe the western consciousness began to break down according to Gilroy?

4. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

5. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

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