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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Peace.
(b) Unprecedented power.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Uniqueness.

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

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

7. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Economic prosperity.
(b) Racial suffering.
(c) Medical developments.
(d) Technological changes.

8. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The liberated woman's.
(b) The white European's.
(c) The factory owners'.
(d) The modern workers'.

9. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) An untold story.
(b) A key part.
(c) A shameful secret.
(d) A footnote.

10. 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 nationalist movements.
(c) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(d) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.

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

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

13. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Race.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) Socialism.

14. 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 are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.
(c) They do not fit into neat categories.
(d) They are not well theorized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

2. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

4. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

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