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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) Essential.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Clearly absurd.
(d) Inescapable.

2. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Obscure racial realities.
(b) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(c) Advance poor and ignorant people.
(d) Redistribute wealth.

3. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A theme to improvise on as he continues.
(b) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.
(c) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(d) A macrocosmic view of race relations.

4. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) The nation-state.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Race.

5. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Cultural studies'.
(b) Writers'.
(c) Ethnographers'.
(d) Black peoples'.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?

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

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