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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(b) They do not fit into neat categories.
(c) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.
(d) They are not well theorized.

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too nationalistic.
(b) They are too essentialist.
(c) They are too rural.
(d) They are too cosmopolitan.

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

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

6. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) New definitions of the races.
(b) Transnational perspective.
(c) A historical context for ideas of race.
(d) A simplification of racial concepts.

7. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?
(a) He says that literacy was inconsistent in the slave world.
(b) He says that they were denied literacy on pain of death.
(c) He says that slave music relied on primitive literary forms.
(d) He says that some slaves could read and write, but only under supervision.

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

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

10. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Pluralistic.
(c) Modern.
(d) Essential.

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

12. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?
(a) Abolitionist and pro-slavery convictions.
(b) Nationalist and internationalist beliefs.
(c) Pro- and anti-Africa feelings.
(d) Radical and conservative nationalism.

13. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Africa.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Poverty.

14. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To invoke their racial memories.
(b) To communicate with each other over distances.
(c) To express their pain.
(d) To preserve their ancient culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

4. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?

5. What function does the first chapter serve?

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