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

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

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

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Utopian visions.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) The idea of capitalism.
(d) The idea of modernity.

5. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(b) Terror at industrial culture.
(c) The pain of slavery.
(d) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?

2. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?

3. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

4. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

5. What does Gilroy say black diaspora styles of music typically emphasize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the search for black roots indicate to Gilroy?

2. What are the two perspectives around which black artistic debate is centered, according to Gilroy?

3. What is the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' contribution to Gilroy's book?

4. What does Gilroy say British audiences expected from Jimi Hendrix?

5. What critique does Gilroy make of the concepts that governed race and ethnicity when he wrote The Black Atlantic?

6. What symbol does Gilroy use to symbolize the black Atlantic?

7. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?

8. What does Gilroy use as opposition to the essential blackness some critics advocate?

9. What is the master-slave dialectic?

10. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?

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