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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. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) African-Americans.
(b) Indigenous people.
(c) Anglo-Africans.
(d) Africans.

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

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

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

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Equal voting rights for black women.
(b) African customs in slave cultures.
(c) Black roots.
(d) Modern scientific terms for race.

Short Answer Questions

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

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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

3. What function does the first chapter serve?

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

5. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

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