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

2. Who were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' predecessors?
(a) Abolition singers.
(b) African drummers.
(c) Appalachian spiritualists.
(d) Southern blues singers.

3. What effect do international corporations have on black musical styles in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They follow the innovators.
(b) They drive change in the forms.
(c) They reward the simplest innovations.
(d) They freeze the forms.

4. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The liberated woman's.
(b) The modern workers'.
(c) The factory owners'.
(d) The white European's.

5. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(b) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(c) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(d) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

3. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

4. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?

5. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the master-slave dialectic?

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

5. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

6. What does Gilroy say most theorists of modernity focus on?

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

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

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

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

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