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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. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) The father of black nationalism.
(b) An abolitionist.
(c) A historian.
(d) A cultural critic who wrote about race.

2. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(b) The abolition movement.
(c) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) The methods of narrating black history.

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?
(a) Dependence.
(b) Absolute power.
(c) Subservience.
(d) Freedom.

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

5. What function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Conceptual background.
(b) Anecdotal introduction.
(c) Historical perspective.
(d) Humorous analogy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

4. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?

5. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

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