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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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) Race.
(b) The nation-state.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalism.

2. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?
(a) Salvation theology.
(b) Self-reliance.
(c) Revolutionary apocalypse.
(d) Freedom from history.

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

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Modern visions of socialism.
(b) The idea of modernity.
(c) Utopian visions.
(d) The idea of capitalism.

5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?
(a) The modern workers'.
(b) The white European's.
(c) The liberated woman's.
(d) The factory owners'.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

3. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?

4. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

5. How does Gilroy characterize the notion of racial purity?

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