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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(b) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(c) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(d) A hermeneutics of suspicion.

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

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As a long cooperative experiment.
(b) As a conjunction of races.
(c) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(d) As the collision of two defined cultures.

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

6. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Redistribute wealth.
(b) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(c) Advance poor and ignorant people.
(d) Obscure racial realities.

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

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

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

10. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A theme to improvise on as he continues.
(b) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(c) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(d) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.

11. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) A collective identity.
(b) Class consciousness.
(c) Political power.
(d) Resistance to industrialism.

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

13. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(b) Equal pay.
(c) Racial relativism.
(d) Cultural historicism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

2. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

4. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?

5. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

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