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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 image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave ship.
(b) The livery coat.
(c) The hangman's noose.
(d) The slave plantation.

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize identity?
(a) As an accomplishment that changes over time.
(b) As an essence that can be revealed by returning to roots.
(c) As the context that demands explanations and a sense of self.
(d) As a mask that is assumed for its benefits.

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As the collision of two defined cultures.
(b) As a conjunction of races.
(c) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(d) As a long cooperative experiment.

5. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) Transnational perspective.
(b) A simplification of racial concepts.
(c) A historical context for ideas of race.
(d) New definitions of the races.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

2. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

3. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

4. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

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