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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Clearly absurd.
(b) Essential.
(c) Inescapable.
(d) Tragic.

5. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Kant.
(d) Hegel.

6. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?
(a) Because talented artists have made enormous strides in musical forms.
(b) Because music has brought people together more than any other cultural form.
(c) Because public culture has consisted largely of music.
(d) Because music has hit themes of class and race.

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

8. How does Gilroy characterize identity?
(a) As a mask that is assumed for its benefits.
(b) As an essence that can be revealed by returning to roots.
(c) As an accomplishment that changes over time.
(d) As the context that demands explanations and a sense of self.

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

10. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Slave mentality.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Exile.

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 leader-follower relation.
(d) The master-slave relation.

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

13. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Secure.
(b) Unsteady.
(c) Tenuous.
(d) Temporary.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?

2. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

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

4. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

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

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