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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 say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a period in race relations.
(b) As a form of economic exchange.
(c) As a collision of cultures.
(d) As a unit of cultural analysis.

2. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) The nation-state.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Race.

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. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Black peoples'.
(b) Cultural studies'.
(c) Ethnographers'.
(d) Writers'.

5. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Racial suffering.
(b) Economic prosperity.
(c) Technological changes.
(d) Medical developments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?

2. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

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

4. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

5. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?

(see the answer key)

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