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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. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(b) As the moral blight on modernity.
(c) As central to Western culture.
(d) As an exception to Western civilization.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of hostility.
(b) A process of liberation.
(c) An act of mourning.
(d) An internalized history.

3. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Anecdotal introduction.
(b) Humorous analogy.
(c) Historical perspective.
(d) Conceptual background.

4. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of race relations.
(b) A history of pre-contact North America.
(c) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(d) A history of blacks in the new world.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

2. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?

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

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

5. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

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