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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 image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave plantation.
(b) The slave ship.
(c) The livery coat.
(d) The hangman's noose.

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

3. Why should blacks openly recognize the debt of their cultural language?
(a) To build bridges to white culture.
(b) To recognize that their culture is part of a larger cultural development.
(c) To accept their place in Western civilization.
(d) To make peaceful relations with Jews.

4. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The mall.
(b) The factory.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) The ghetto.

5. What theory culminated in the Holocaust?
(a) Eugenics.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Messianic theology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the role of tradition in black culture according to Gilroy?

2. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

3. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

4. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

5. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

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