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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 was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?
(a) The methods of narrating black history.
(b) The Fugitive Slave Law.
(c) The Liberian movement in American abolitionism.
(d) The abolition movement.

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

3. What does Gilroy say master-race intellectuals often do to race?
(a) Fetishize it.
(b) Reduce it to marketable cultural forms.
(c) Subsume it into working class consciousness.
(d) Essentialize it in opposition to the master race.

4. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Obscure racial realities.
(b) Redistribute wealth.
(c) Advance poor and ignorant people.
(d) Take power from blacks and immigrants.

5. What was Martin Robison Delany searching for?
(a) Modern scientific terms for race.
(b) Equal voting rights for black women.
(c) Black roots.
(d) African customs in slave cultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

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

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

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

5. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?

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