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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 concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) American essentialism.
(b) Cultural relativism.
(c) Ethnic absolutism.
(d) Revisionism.

2. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It balances it.
(b) It confirms it.
(c) It breaks it.
(d) It defines it.

3. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1916.

4. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Casually interested.
(b) Primarily interested.
(c) Excessively interested.
(d) Uninterested.

5. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
(a) At the periphery.
(b) Underneath.
(c) Both inside and outside.
(d) Everywhere throughout.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

3. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

4. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

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

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

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

6. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

7. What does Gilroy use as opposition to the essential blackness some critics advocate?

8. What is the problem with a black identity rooted in skin color for Gilroy?

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

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

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