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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 say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a hidden history.
(b) As ancient essences.
(c) As a source of power.
(d) As a process of movement and mediation.

2. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(b) The leader-follower relation.
(c) The relation of blood enemies.
(d) The master-slave relation.

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Unique.
(b) Decentralized.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Neurotic.

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Racial relativism.
(b) Equal pay.
(c) Cultural historicism.
(d) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

2. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

3. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?

4. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

5. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What group does Gilroy say his book focuses on?

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

10. How does Gilroy define the consciousness of the slave?

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