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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 relation does Gilroy say Western culture has with black politics?
(a) Father.
(b) Stepparent.
(c) Sibling.
(d) Uncle.

2. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?
(a) Empowers oppressed minorities.
(b) Accommodates numerous racial experiences.
(c) Obscures racial differences.
(d) Provides a false sense of power and identity.

3. What kind of history did Frederick Douglass propose according to Gilroy?
(a) A history of pre-slavery Africa.
(b) A history of race relations.
(c) A history of blacks in the new world.
(d) A history of pre-contact North America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

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

3. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

4. What does the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?

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

(see the answer key)

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