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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a hidden history.
(b) As a source of power.
(c) As a process of movement and mediation.
(d) As ancient essences.

4. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(b) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(c) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(d) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.

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

6. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Contingent.
(b) Fractured.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Holistic.

7. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Power.
(c) Industry.
(d) Technology.

8. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Unprecedented power.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Uniqueness.
(d) Peace.

9. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Quotidian.
(c) Elite.
(d) Demotic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

2. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?

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

4. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

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

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