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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 Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.
(b) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(c) It is now confused.
(d) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Fractured.
(b) Contingent.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Holistic.

4. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(b) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(c) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(d) Race is a matter of choice and identification.

5. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Pluralistic.
(c) Essential.
(d) Modern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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

3. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

4. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

(see the answer key)

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