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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 the notion of the Black Atlantic produce according to Gilroy?
(a) A simplification of racial concepts.
(b) New definitions of the races.
(c) A historical context for ideas of race.
(d) Transnational perspective.

2. How does Gilroy characterize the modern self?
(a) Contingent.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Holistic.

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

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?
(a) It is not honest.
(b) It is not as liberating as it likes to believe.
(c) It only uses the promise of opportunity as a ploy to make people complicit in their own poverty.
(d) It is not holistic.

5. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?
(a) As the fulfillment of history.
(b) As an apocalyptic prophecy for Western culture.
(c) As the deterioration of historical evolution of culture.
(d) As a radical break of modernity from previous periods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?

2. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

3. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?

4. What reason does Gilroy use for justifying this characterization of the notion of racial purity?

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

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