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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 does Gilroy say we should discuss?
(a) The dangers of industrial technology.
(b) The differences between the Holocaust and slavery.
(c) The opportunities for understanding brought about by modern communication techniques.
(d) Common themes between the Holocaust and slavery.

2. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To communicate with each other over distances.
(b) To preserve their ancient culture.
(c) To express their pain.
(d) To invoke their racial memories.

3. What is the role of slavery in the black idea of tradition?
(a) The founding event.
(b) A chance to participate in the ongoing developments of modernism.
(c) A footnote to the development of sub-Saharan civilizations.
(d) A trial and opportunity for redemption through suffering.

4. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) A simplification of racial concepts.
(b) A historical context for ideas of race.
(c) Transnational perspective.
(d) New definitions of the races.

5. What did DuBois believe in that Richard Wright did not believe in according to Gilroy?
(a) Returning to black roots.
(b) Pan-Africanism.
(c) Essential blackness.
(d) Social perfection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

2. What does the Holocaust help us understood according to Gilroy?

3. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

5. What does tradition signify in black culture according to Gilroy?

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