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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cheer the Weary Traveller, W.E.B. Du Bois, Germany and the Politics of (Dis)placement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) African customs in slave cultures.
(b) Equal voting rights for black women.
(c) Black roots.
(d) Modern scientific terms for race.

2. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Racial suffering.
(b) Economic prosperity.
(c) Technological changes.
(d) Medical developments.

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

4. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) A political agenda.
(b) Music.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

5. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?
(a) In early childhood.
(b) When he asked to vote.
(c) Listening to the Fisk University Jubilee Singers.
(d) When he bought another man's freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first mode of double consciousness is particular to whom?

2. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

3. What are the two parts of the double consciousness Gilroy describes?

4. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the mood of the black Atlantic?

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