The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Paul Gilroy
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1865.

2. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?
(a) Essentialism.
(b) Developmental progression.
(c) Practical applications.
(d) Return to origins.

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

4. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(c) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(d) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.

5. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Hierarchical.
(b) Liberating.
(c) Non-violent.
(d) Non-dominating.

6. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Advance poor and ignorant people.
(b) Redistribute wealth.
(c) Obscure racial realities.
(d) Take power from blacks and immigrants.

7. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
(a) His exposure to voodoo.
(b) His experiences in Africa.
(c) His success in Europe.
(d) His cosmopolitan culture.

8. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are already outdated.
(b) They are contain stereotypes.
(c) They are too homogenous.
(d) They are not coherent.

9. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?
(a) Blurring the lines between selves.
(b) Forestalling cultural conflict.
(c) Resolving cultural conflict.
(d) Appropriating different cultures.

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

11. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?
(a) A source of modern ritual.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Sublime and unfathomable.
(d) Unspeakable but not inexpressible.

12. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(b) It is not honest.
(c) It is not holistic.
(d) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.

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

14. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(b) It should be recognized as a form of communication.
(c) It should be used as a political tool.
(d) It should be higher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?

5. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

(see the answer keys)

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