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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 does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are not well theorized.
(b) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(c) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.
(d) They do not fit into neat categories.

2. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a collision of cultures.
(b) As a form of economic exchange.
(c) As a unit of cultural analysis.
(d) As a period in race relations.

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

4. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Revises them.
(b) Confirms them.
(c) Challenges them.
(d) Explodes them.

5. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?
(a) It lumps dissimilar people together.
(b) It gives individuals too much freedom.
(c) It obscures realities.
(d) It fuels a false sense of cultural identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

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

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

5. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

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