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

2. What idea does Gilroy see at work in DuBois' novel Dark Princess?
(a) Racial heterogeneity.
(b) Exogamy.
(c) Miscegenation.
(d) Inbreeding.

3. When did the majority of the British black population emigrate according to Gilroy?
(a) After the American Civil War.
(b) After the Great War.
(c) After the American Revolution.
(d) After World War II.

4. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Essential.
(c) Modern.
(d) Pluralistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

2. How does Gilroy characterize the slaves' literacy?

3. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?

4. Cornel West used DuBois' work as a solution to a crisis in what?

5. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

(see the answer key)

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