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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. 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(d) They are already outdated.

2. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(b) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(c) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(d) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?

3. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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