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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 modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?
(a) Economic prosperity.
(b) Medical developments.
(c) Technological changes.
(d) Racial suffering.

2. What does this image symbolize for Gilroy?
(a) A formula for evaluating race relations in history.
(b) A theme to improvise on as he continues.
(c) A macrocosmic view of race relations.
(d) A micro-cultural, micro-political system.

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 What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?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

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

5. How does Gilroy say the Black Atlantic should be understood?
(a) As a form of economic exchange.
(b) As a collision of cultures.
(c) As a period in race relations.
(d) As a unit of cultural analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?

4. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

5. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

(see the answer key)

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