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

2. What did music create in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) A priestly caste of lay intellectuals.
(b) Contention between factions of black intellectuals.
(c) A tradition of minstrelsy.
(d) New forms of art in white culture.

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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?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

4. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Tenuous.
(c) Secure.
(d) Unsteady.

5. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-contact North America.
(b) A history of blacks in the new world.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of race relations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

2. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

3. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

4. When were the Fisk University Jubilee Singers performing?

5. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gilroy propose the concept of the black Atlantic should be used?

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

3. What role did music play in slaves' lives according to Gilroy?

4. What are the two perspectives around which black artistic debate is centered, according to Gilroy?

5. How does the language of sexuality distract people from their racial identity in Gilroy's account?

6. How does Gilroy describe the modern self and how does this affect our narratives of history?

7. What is the master-slave dialectic?

8. How does Gilroy define the consciousness of the slave?

9. What criticism does Gilroy make of Enlightenment universalist claims?

10. What role should slavery play in the history of Western culture in Gilroy's opinion?

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