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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The free black's.
(b) The slave owner's.
(c) The woman's.
(d) The slave's.

3. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Communist.
(d) Traditional.

4. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Cultural studies'.
(b) Ethnographers'.
(c) Black peoples'.
(d) Writers'.

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Racial relativism.
(b) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Cultural historicism.

6. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Pluralistic.
(c) Modern.
(d) Essential.

7. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(b) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(c) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.
(d) It is now confused.

8. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(b) As central to Western culture.
(c) As the moral blight on modernity.
(d) As an exception to Western civilization.

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

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

11. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(b) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(c) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(d) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.

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

13. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They drive change in the forms.
(b) They reward the simplest innovations.
(c) They freeze the forms.
(d) They follow the innovators.

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

15. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?
(a) Relativists.
(b) Essentialists.
(c) Anti-essentialists.
(d) Apologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

2. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

3. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

5. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?

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