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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 relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(b) The master-slave relation.
(c) The leader-follower relation.
(d) The relation of blood enemies.

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

3. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Racial suffering.
(b) Economic prosperity.
(c) Technological changes.
(d) Medical developments.

4. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(b) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.
(c) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.
(d) As the fulfillment of history.

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?
(a) The free black's.
(b) The slave owner's.
(c) The woman's.
(d) The slave's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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