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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. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Kant.

2. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Obscure racial realities.
(b) Redistribute wealth.
(c) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(d) Advance poor and ignorant people.

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(b) The abolition movement.
(c) The methods of narrating black history.
(d) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A footnote.
(b) A key part.
(c) A shameful secret.
(d) An untold story.

5. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Unprecedented power.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Peace.
(d) Uniqueness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?

2. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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