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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 does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Challenges them.
(b) Revises them.
(c) Explodes them.
(d) Confirms them.

2. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The relation of blood enemies.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The leader-follower relation.
(d) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.

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

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

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Black roots.
(d) Equal voting rights for black women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

2. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

3. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

4. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

5. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

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