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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 image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The hangman's noose.
(b) The slave plantation.
(c) The livery coat.
(d) The slave ship.

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(b) It is not holistic.
(c) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(d) It is not honest.

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

4. How does Gilroy say racial roots should be understood?
(a) As a process of movement and mediation.
(b) As ancient essences.
(c) As a source of power.
(d) As a hidden history.

5. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race has its own uniqueness.
(b) That race is ultimately optional.
(c) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(d) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy suggest we think about the history of slavery?

2. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

3. Who first defined the notion of the master-slave dialectic?

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

5. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

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