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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(b) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Absolute power.
(d) Subservience.

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

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

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

6. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Africans.
(d) Anglo-Africans.

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

8. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It balances it.
(b) It confirms it.
(c) It breaks it.
(d) It defines it.

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

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

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

12. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) African roots.
(b) Core blackness.
(c) Tools for assimilating.
(d) More innovative musical forms.

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

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

15. 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 ignored.
(c) It has defined the counter-culture.
(d) It has been central to definitions of modernity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?

2. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?

3. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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

5. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

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