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

2. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(b) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(c) A hermeneutics of suspicion.
(d) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.

3. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(b) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(c) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(d) Race is a matter of choice and identification.

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

5. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.
(b) Fetishize it.
(c) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.
(d) Subsume it into working class consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

3. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

4. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

5. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

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