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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 idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Salvation theology.
(c) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(d) Freedom from history.

2. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Subsume it into working class consciousness.
(b) Fetishize it.
(c) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.
(d) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.

3. 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 the collision of two defined cultures.
(d) As a conjunction of races.

4. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is now confused.
(b) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.
(c) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(d) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(b) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(c) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(d) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?

4. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

5. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

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