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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 is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(b) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(c) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(d) A hermeneutics of liberty.

2. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
(a) Apologists.
(b) Essentialists.
(c) Anti-essentialists.
(d) Relativists.

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Primarily interested.
(b) Excessively interested.
(c) Uninterested.
(d) Casually interested.

4. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Anglo-Africans.
(b) Africans.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Indigenous people.

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of blacks in the new world.
(b) A history of race relations.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of pre-contact North America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say is the result of racial identity?

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

3. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?

4. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?

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