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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Inescapable.
(c) Essential.
(d) Clearly absurd.

4. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?
(a) Revisionism.
(b) American essentialism.
(c) Ethnic absolutism.
(d) Cultural relativism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

2. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

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

4. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

(see the answer key)

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