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

2. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The slave plantation.
(b) The livery coat.
(c) The slave ship.
(d) The hangman's noose.

3. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As the fulfillment of history.
(b) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(c) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(d) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?

4. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

5. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

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