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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Not a Story to Pass On, Living Memory and the Slave Sublime.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy say that Richard Wright saw capitalism?
(a) As a messianic religion.
(b) As a form of liberation theology.
(c) As a great liberator.
(d) As a destructive war.

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

3. What does Gilroy say about racial traditions?
(a) We can regain them if they are still practiced somewhere.
(b) They are endangered throughout the world, not just in the black Atlantic.
(c) We cannot recover them once they are lost.
(d) They are the source of all opposition to modernity.

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

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A hegemonic empire.
(b) A dynamic alliance.
(c) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(d) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What heresy did Richard Wright commit, in Gilroy's account?

2. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

3. What did blacks symbolize for Richard Wright?

4. What does music do to the genteel image many moderns have of themselves according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

(see the answer key)

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