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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 consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Anglo-Africans.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Indigenous people.
(d) Africans.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) An act of mourning.
(b) An act of hostility.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) A process of liberation.

3. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not honest.
(b) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(c) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(d) It is not holistic.

4. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Kant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

2. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

3. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

4. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

5. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

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