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

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

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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?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

4. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are too homogenous.
(b) They are already outdated.
(c) They are contain stereotypes.
(d) They are not coherent.

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?
(a) A dynamic alliance.
(b) A global arts and entertainment empire.
(c) A hegemonic empire.
(d) A decentralized marketplace of powers and ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

2. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

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

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

5. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

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