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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. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Temporary.
(b) Holistic.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Contingent.

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

3. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Ethnographers'.
(b) Black peoples'.
(c) Cultural studies'.
(d) Writers'.

4. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?
(a) Unprecedented power.
(b) Egalitarianism.
(c) Uniqueness.
(d) Peace.

5. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The mall.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) The ghetto.
(d) The factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?

2. Under what light does this claim cease to hold up, in Gilroy's opinion?

3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?

4. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

5. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

(see the answer key)

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