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

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

3. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(b) Obscures racial differences.
(c) Empowers oppressed minorities.
(d) Provides a false sense of power and identity.

4. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As ancient essences.
(b) As a hidden history.
(c) As a source of power.
(d) As a process of movement and mediation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

2. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?

3. When was Martin Robison Delany born?

4. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?

(see the answer key)

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