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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Masters, Mistresses, Slaves and the Antinomies of Modernity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?
(a) Essential.
(b) Clearly absurd.
(c) Inescapable.
(d) Tragic.

3. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?
(a) Primarily interested.
(b) Excessively interested.
(c) Casually interested.
(d) Uninterested.

4. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?
(a) As central to Western culture.
(b) As an exception to Western civilization.
(c) As the defining institution in Western civilization.
(d) As the moral blight on modernity.

5. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) In light of the West's nationalist movements.
(b) In light of radical Islam's hostility.
(c) In light of the discontent of industrial workers.
(d) In light of the West's relations with poorer nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

2. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

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

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

5. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?

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