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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(b) Salvation theology.
(c) Freedom from history.
(d) Self-reliance.

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

3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of blacks in the new world.
(b) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(c) A history of race relations.
(d) A history of pre-contact North America.

4. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(b) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(c) As the fulfillment of history.
(d) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.

5. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a unit of cultural analysis.
(b) As a period in race relations.
(c) As a form of economic exchange.
(d) As a collision of cultures.

6. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) New forms of art in white culture.
(b) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.
(c) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(d) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.

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

8. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Stepparent.
(b) Sibling.
(c) Father.
(d) Uncle.

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(a) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.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

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

11. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Technological changes.
(b) Medical developments.
(c) Racial suffering.
(d) Economic prosperity.

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

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

14. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) An abolitionist.
(b) A historian.
(c) A cultural critic who wrote about race.
(d) The father of black nationalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

3. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

4. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

5. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

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