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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To preserve their ancient culture.
(b) To invoke their racial memories.
(c) To express their pain.
(d) To communicate with each other over distances.

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

4. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?
(a) It has been dismissed as a popular form of commerce.
(b) It has been ignored.
(c) It has defined the counter-culture.
(d) It has been central to definitions of modernity.

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The woman's.
(b) The free black's.
(c) The slave's.
(d) The slave owner's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

2. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

3. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

4. What kind of political community does Gilroy say results from black musical society?

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

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