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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 does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(b) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(c) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(d) There are no clear boundaries between people.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Demotic.
(b) Elite.
(c) Quotidian.
(d) Proletariat.

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

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

5. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Africa.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

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

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

4. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

4. How does the uniqueness of the black Atlantic experience affect views of race according to Gilroy?

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

6. What value does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition has for those who use it?

7. How does Gilroy describe the black experience in England?

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

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

10. What has music done for black culture in Gilroy's account?

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