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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 phenomenon will help us understand race theory in Gilroy's account?
(a) Evolution.
(b) Cycles of history.
(c) Mutation.
(d) Revolution.

2. What does Gilroy associate racial traditions with?
(a) Syncretic modernity.
(b) Pre-modernity.
(c) Postmodernity.
(d) International modernism.

3. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.
(b) The state of nostalgia for home.
(c) The state of being in pain.
(d) The state of displacement from the self.

4. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too rural.
(b) They are too nationalistic.
(c) They are too essentialist.
(d) They are too cosmopolitan.

5. What does music represent, according to Gilroy?
(a) Pre-discursive elements in black experience.
(b) The essence of black culture.
(c) The conflict between literacy and experience.
(d) The ongoing struggle against modernity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say DuBois often reminded blacks?

3. How does Gilroy describe slavery?

4. What is the role of slavery in the black idea of tradition?

5. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?

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