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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) Appalachian spiritualists.
(b) Southern blues singers.
(c) African drummers.
(d) Abolition singers.

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

3. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Explodes them.
(b) Challenges them.
(c) Confirms them.
(d) Revises them.

4. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Decentralized.
(c) Unique.
(d) Ancient.

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

6. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(b) The abolition movement.
(c) The methods of narrating black history.
(d) The Fugitive Slave Law.

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

8. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(b) Empowers oppressed minorities.
(c) Obscures racial differences.
(d) Provides a false sense of power and identity.

9. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) African customs in slave cultures.
(b) Black roots.
(c) Modern scientific terms for race.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

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

11. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(b) The relation of blood enemies.
(c) The master-slave relation.
(d) The leader-follower relation.

12. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(b) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(c) It has been ignored.
(d) It has defined the counter-culture.

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

14. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After World War II.
(b) After the American Civil War.
(c) After the Great War.
(d) After the American Revolution.

15. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Unifying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?

2. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

3. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

4. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

5. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

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