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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has been central to definitions of modernity.
(b) It has defined the counter-culture.
(c) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(d) It has been ignored.

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

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

4. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(b) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(c) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.
(d) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.

5. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
(a) His success in Europe.
(b) His experiences in Africa.
(c) His cosmopolitan culture.
(d) His exposure to voodoo.

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

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

8. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of mourning.
(b) An act of hostility.
(c) A process of liberation.
(d) An internalized history.

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

10. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?
(a) Political power.
(b) Exaggerated masculinity.
(c) Intellectual demonstrations of power.
(d) Money.

11. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(b) The methods of narrating black history.
(c) The abolition movement.
(d) The Fugitive Slave Law.

12. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Black roots.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Modern scientific terms for race.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

13. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
(a) Underneath.
(b) At the periphery.
(c) Both inside and outside.
(d) Everywhere throughout.

14. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Fractured.
(b) Contingent.
(c) Holistic.
(d) Temporary.

15. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) African drummers.
(b) Abolition singers.
(c) Southern blues singers.
(d) Appalachian spiritualists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

2. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

5. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

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