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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 assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(b) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(c) That race has its own uniqueness.
(d) That race is ultimately optional.

2. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The suburbs.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) The factory.
(d) The mall.

3. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) A simplification of racial concepts.
(b) New definitions of the races.
(c) A historical context for ideas of race.
(d) Transnational perspective.

4. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are not coherent.
(b) They are too homogenous.
(c) They are contain stereotypes.
(d) They are already outdated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?

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

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

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

5. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

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