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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does The Souls of Black Folk say to white people according to Gilroy?
(a) It proposes that helping the blacks return to Africa is the best path for progress.
(b) It affirms the interrelationship between slavers and slaves.
(c) It establishes the intellectual credentials of the black races.
(d) It challenges their sense of color-coded civilization.

2. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?
(a) Communist.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Democratic.

3. What does Gilroy say is the only way to deal with the history of slavery?
(a) To look it in the face.
(b) To try to hide the past away.
(c) To live with what is in the present.
(d) To dig into the past to find a personal origin in it.

4. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Miscegenation.
(b) Inbreeding.
(c) Exogamy.
(d) Racial heterogeneity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does music represent, according to Gilroy?

2. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

3. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?

4. What did black music help to form in Britain as Gilroy describes it?

5. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

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