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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 criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are not coherent.
(c) They are already outdated.
(d) They are contain stereotypes.

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

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

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As the collision of two defined cultures.
(b) As a conjunction of races.
(c) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(d) As a long cooperative experiment.

5. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too essentialist.
(b) They are too rural.
(c) They are too nationalistic.
(d) They are too cosmopolitan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

4. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?

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