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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 modern self?
(a) Holistic.
(b) Contingent.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Temporary.

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

3. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?
(a) Abolitionist and pro-slavery convictions.
(b) Radical and conservative nationalism.
(c) Pro- and anti-Africa feelings.
(d) Nationalist and internationalist beliefs.

4. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?
(a) Resistance to industrialism.
(b) A collective identity.
(c) Political power.
(d) Class consciousness.

5. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Sibling.
(c) Father.
(d) Stepparent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

2. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

3. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?

4. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is nationalism's role in the conceptualization of race, according to Gilroy?

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

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

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

6. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

7. How does Gilroy propose the concept of the black Atlantic should be used?

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

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

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

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