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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 limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too cosmopolitan.
(b) They are too essentialist.
(c) They are too nationalistic.
(d) They are too rural.

2. 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 do not fit into neat categories.
(d) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.

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

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

5. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(b) Race is a matter of choice and identification.
(c) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(d) There are no clear boundaries between people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

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

(see the answer key)

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