The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Paul Gilroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Paul Gilroy
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) American essentialism.
(b) Revisionism.
(c) Cultural relativism.
(d) Ethnic absolutism.

2. What does the black person's perpetual searching indicate to Gilroy?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Exile.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Slave mentality.

3. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Immigration.
(b) Africa.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Slavery.

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

5. How does Gilroy characterize the pluralistic camp in black artistic circles?
(a) Skeptical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Divisive.
(d) Unifying.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

2. What do black artists sometimes focus on, to their detriment, according to Gilroy?

3. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

4. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

5. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

(see the answer key)

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