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

2. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Kant.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Emerson.

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

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?
(a) It breaks it.
(b) It balances it.
(c) It defines it.
(d) It confirms it.

5. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?
(a) Intellectual, hip, wise.
(b) Savage, illiterate, brutal.
(c) Cool, aloof, suave.
(d) Wild, sexual, unrestrained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

2. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the residual feelings from slavery?

4. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

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

(see the answer key)

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