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

2. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?
(a) Drama.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Poetry.

3. Who said that slavery is at the natal core of modernity?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) W. E. B. DuBois.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Gilroy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?

2. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

3. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?

4. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

5. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?

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