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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize identity?
(a) As a mask that is assumed for its benefits.
(b) As the context that demands explanations and a sense of self.
(c) As an essence that can be revealed by returning to roots.
(d) As an accomplishment that changes over time.

2. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Historical perspective.
(b) Conceptual background.
(c) Anecdotal introduction.
(d) Humorous analogy.

3. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After the American Revolution.
(b) After the Great War.
(c) After World War II.
(d) After the American Civil War.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?

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

3. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

4. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

5. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What criticism does Gilroy make of Enlightenment universalist claims?

2. How does Gilroy define the consciousness of the slave?

3. What role should slavery play in the history of Western culture in Gilroy's opinion?

4. How does Gilroy define the hermeneutics of the black Atlantic?

5. How does Gilroy describe the modern self and how does this affect our narratives of history?

6. What is double consciousness?

7. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

8. How does the language of sexuality distract people from their racial identity in Gilroy's account?

9. What is the master-slave dialectic?

10. Where does Gilroy say we should look in order to see the reality of black experience?

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