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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. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1812.
2. What kind of social relations does music create according to Gilroy?
(a) Non-violent.
(b) Hierarchical.
(c) Non-dominating.
(d) Liberating.
3. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Demotic.
(b) Quotidian.
(c) Elite.
(d) Proletariat.
4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Modern visions of socialism.
(b) The idea of capitalism.
(c) The idea of modernity.
(d) Utopian visions.
5. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The leader-follower relation.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(d) The relation of blood enemies.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
2. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
4. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
5. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the master-slave dialectic?
2. What value does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition has for those who use it?
3. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?
4. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?
5. What has music done for black culture in Gilroy's account?
6. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?
7. Where does Gilroy say we should look in order to see the reality of black experience?
8. What does Gilroy say British audiences expected from Jimi Hendrix?
9. What are the two perspectives around which black artistic debate is centered, according to Gilroy?
10. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?
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