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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 cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?
(a) Keeping the terror of slavery alive.
(b) Articulating political unrest.
(c) Assuaging political unrest.
(d) Numbing people to modern atrocities.

2. What does Gilroy say led to Jimi Hendrix's triumph in the U.S.?
(a) His cosmopolitan culture.
(b) His experiences in Africa.
(c) His exposure to voodoo.
(d) His success in Europe.

3. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be higher.
(b) It should be used as a political tool.
(c) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(d) It should be recognized as a form of communication.

4. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) Core blackness.
(b) More innovative musical forms.
(c) Tools for assimilating.
(d) African roots.

5. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(b) Intellectual, hip, wise.
(c) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.
(d) Cool, aloof, suave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say people become after witnessing black music?

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

4. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Gilroy describe the modern self and how does this affect our narratives of history?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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