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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. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?
(a) The factory.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) The mall.

2. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?
(a) Black peoples'.
(b) Cultural studies'.
(c) Writers'.
(d) Ethnographers'.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

4. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?

5. Whose narrative does Gilroy say rests upon the narrative of the black Atlantic?

(see the answer key)

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