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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 consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of hostility.
(b) An act of mourning.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) A process of liberation.

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

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The ghetto.
(b) The mall.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) The factory.

4. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) African customs in slave cultures.
(b) Black roots.
(c) Modern scientific terms for race.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The free black's.
(b) The slave's.
(c) The woman's.
(d) The slave owner's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

3. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?

4. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

5. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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