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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 has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of capitalism.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) The idea of modernity.
(d) Utopian visions.

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

3. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(b) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(c) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(d) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.

4. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) W. E. B. DuBois.
(d) Gilroy.

5. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Drama.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

3. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

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

5. What is the effect of collaboration according to Gilroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What symbol does Gilroy use to symbolize the black Atlantic?

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

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

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

5. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?

6. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

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

8. How does Gilroy define the hermeneutics of the black Atlantic?

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

10. How does the uniqueness of the black Atlantic experience affect views of race according to Gilroy?

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