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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) American essentialism.
(b) Revisionism.
(c) Ethnic absolutism.
(d) Cultural relativism.

2. Why does Gilroy say that it is odd that music held this role?
(a) Because public culture has consisted largely of music.
(b) Because talented artists have made enormous strides in musical forms.
(c) Because music has brought people together more than any other cultural form.
(d) Because music has hit themes of class and race.

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

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

5. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too rural.
(b) They are too nationalistic.
(c) They are too cosmopolitan.
(d) They are too essentialist.

6. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Contingent.
(b) Fractured.
(c) Holistic.
(d) Temporary.

7. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Socialism.
(b) The nation-state.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Race.

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

9. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(b) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(c) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(d) Race is a matter of choice and identification.

10. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are not coherent.
(b) They are too homogenous.
(c) They are already outdated.
(d) They are contain stereotypes.

11. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?
(a) To express their pain.
(b) To communicate with each other over distances.
(c) To preserve their ancient culture.
(d) To invoke their racial memories.

12. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The leader-follower relation.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(d) The relation of blood enemies.

13. What does Gilroy say is the core of Afro-Atlantic culture?
(a) Sadness over the inhumanity of modernity.
(b) Sorrow for the loss of the earth as a source of culture.
(c) The pain of slavery.
(d) Terror at industrial culture.

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

15. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) A cultural critic who wrote about race.
(b) A historian.
(c) The father of black nationalism.
(d) An abolitionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the common memory for British blacks in Gilroy's opinion?

2. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

3. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

4. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

5. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

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