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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

2. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

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

4. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the master-slave dialectic?

5. Why is it odd, in Gilroy's opinion, that debates over modernity have ignored music?

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

7. What does Gilroy say most theorists of modernity focus on?

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

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

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

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