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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Essential.
(b) Clearly absurd.
(c) Inescapable.
(d) Tragic.

3. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.
(b) Racial relativism.
(c) Equal pay.
(d) Cultural historicism.

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(c) They are already outdated.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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

5. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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