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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(b) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(c) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.
(d) In light of the West's nationalist movements.

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

3. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Empowers oppressed minorities.
(b) Provides a false sense of power and identity.
(c) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(d) Obscures racial differences.

4. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Cultural studies'.
(b) Writers'.
(c) Ethnographers'.
(d) Black peoples'.

5. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of modernity.
(b) Utopian visions.
(c) The idea of capitalism.
(d) Modern visions of socialism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

3. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

4. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Gilroy say we should look in order to see the reality of black experience?

2. What is the problem with a black identity rooted in skin color for Gilroy?

3. What can music accomplish as Gilroy describes it?

4. What view does Gilroy say we should take of black experiences?

5. What symbol does Gilroy use to symbolize the black Atlantic?

6. What does the search for black roots indicate to Gilroy?

7. How does Gilroy define the hermeneutics of the black Atlantic?

8. What has music done for black culture in Gilroy's account?

9. What is the Fisk University Jubilee Singers' contribution to Gilroy's book?

10. Why is Martin Robison Delany important to Gilroy?

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