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

2. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) More innovative musical forms.
(b) Tools for assimilating.
(c) Core blackness.
(d) African roots.

3. How does Gilroy characterize the exceptionalist camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Elite.
(c) Quotidian.
(d) Demotic.

4. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(b) Terror at industrial culture.
(c) The pain of slavery.
(d) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.

5. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1870s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1920s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

2. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

3. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?

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

5. What cultural work does Gilroy say music has performed?

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