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

2. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As a long cooperative experiment.
(b) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(c) As a conjunction of races.
(d) As the collision of two defined cultures.

3. What kinds of frameworks was DuBois trying to look beyond?
(a) Essentialist.
(b) Monotheist.
(c) Relativist.
(d) Pluralist.

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

5. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?
(a) Self-aware intellect and blind impulses and urges.
(b) Politics of fulfillment and politics of transformation.
(c) Politics of subordination and politics of emancipation.
(d) Primitive culture and modern culture.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did DuBois' birthplace affect his identity?

4. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

5. What does music allow black culture to do with this feeling?

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