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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Masters, Mistresses, Slaves and the Antinomies of Modernity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Drama.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Fiction.

2. When was Martin Robison Delany born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1812.

3. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
(a) Everywhere throughout.
(b) Both inside and outside.
(c) Underneath.
(d) At the periphery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

4. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

5. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

(see the answer key)

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