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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1888.
2. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
(a) Everywhere throughout.
(b) Both inside and outside.
(c) At the periphery.
(d) Underneath.
3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(b) A history of race relations.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of pre-contact North America.
4. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Unifying.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Skeptical.
5. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Slave mentality.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Exile.
(d) Insecurity.
6. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It lumps dissimilar people together.
(b) It obscures realities.
(c) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.
(d) It gives individuals too much freedom.
7. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a unit of cultural analysis.
(b) As a collision of cultures.
(c) As a period in race relations.
(d) As a form of economic exchange.
8. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A footnote.
(b) A key part.
(c) An untold story.
(d) A shameful secret.
9. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) A collective identity.
(b) Political power.
(c) Resistance to industrialism.
(d) Class consciousness.
10. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) New forms of art in white culture.
(b) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(c) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.
(d) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.
11. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Africans.
(d) Anglo-Africans.
12. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Kant.
(d) Nietzsche.
13. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?
(a) Subservience.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Absolute power.
14. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(b) Racial relativism.
(c) Cultural historicism.
(d) Equal pay.
15. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After World War II.
(b) After the American Revolution.
(c) After the Great War.
(d) After the American Civil War.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
3. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
4. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
5. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
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