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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Pluralistic.
(c) Modern.
(d) Essential.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

2. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

3. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

4. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

5. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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