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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. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Ancient.
(b) Unique.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Decentralized.

2. Why is this idea insufficient to modern reality, according to Gilroy?
(a) The central definitions were all determined by the master race.
(b) The history has been challenged for so long that no one knows what it is any longer.
(c) The language of liberation has hidden contradictions.
(d) The vocabulary for oppressed people has been suppressed.

3. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Explodes them.
(b) Challenges them.
(c) Confirms them.
(d) Revises them.

4. What criticism does Gilroy make of modern racial and ethnic concepts?
(a) They are contain stereotypes.
(b) They are already outdated.
(c) They are not coherent.
(d) They are too homogenous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?

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

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

4. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?

5. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

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