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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) A process of liberation.
(b) An act of hostility.
(c) An act of mourning.
(d) An internalized history.

2. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) Cultural relativism.
(b) Revisionism.
(c) Ethnic absolutism.
(d) American essentialism.

3. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Intellectual, hip, wise.
(b) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(c) Cool, aloof, suave.
(d) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.

4. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Historical perspective.
(b) Humorous analogy.
(c) Conceptual background.
(d) Anecdotal introduction.

5. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of modernity.
(b) Utopian visions.
(c) Modern visions of socialism.
(d) The idea of capitalism.

6. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(b) As a long cooperative experiment.
(c) As a conjunction of races.
(d) As the collision of two defined cultures.

7. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Performance.
(d) Precision.

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

9. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Africa.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Poverty.

10. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.
(b) A dynamic alliance.
(c) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(d) A hegemonic empire.

11. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Drama.
(d) Fiction.

12. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(b) That race is ultimately optional.
(c) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(d) That race has its own uniqueness.

13. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1890s.

14. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?
(a) Dependence.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Subservience.
(d) Absolute power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?

2. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

3. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

5. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

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