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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 is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?
(a) Equal pay.
(b) Cultural historicism.
(c) Racial relativism.
(d) Oppositional ethnic ideologies.

2. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Father.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Sibling.
(d) Stepparent.

3. 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.

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) The idea of modernity.
(b) Modern visions of socialism.
(c) Utopian visions.
(d) The idea of capitalism.

5. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(b) That race has its own uniqueness.
(c) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(d) That race is ultimately optional.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

3. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

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

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