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

2. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the moral blight on modernity.
(b) As an exception to Western civilization.
(c) As central to Western culture.
(d) As the defining institution in Western civilization.

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

4. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.
(b) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.
(c) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(d) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.

5. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Salvation theology.
(c) Freedom from history.
(d) Revolutionary apocalypse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?

3. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

4. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?

5. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

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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