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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 success in Europe.
(b) His experiences in Africa.
(c) His exposure to voodoo.
(d) His cosmopolitan culture.

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

3. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.
(b) It gives individuals too much freedom.
(c) It obscures realities.
(d) It lumps dissimilar people together.

4. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) New definitions of the races.
(b) A historical context for ideas of race.
(c) A simplification of racial concepts.
(d) Transnational perspective.

5. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Inescapable.
(c) Clearly absurd.
(d) Essential.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

2. How does Gilroy say DuBois arrived at his identity?

3. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

4. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

5. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

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