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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 about the Enlightenment notion of universality?
(a) It is no longer applicable in a transnational global culture.
(b) It was been perfected in the late twentieth century.
(c) It is still the most accurate model of modern culture.
(d) It is now confused.

2. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?
(a) Obscure racial realities.
(b) Advance poor and ignorant people.
(c) Take power from blacks and immigrants.
(d) Redistribute wealth.

3. What contradiction did Martin Robison Delany NOT embody in his beliefs, according to Gilroy?
(a) Radical and conservative nationalism.
(b) Nationalist and internationalist beliefs.
(c) Abolitionist and pro-slavery convictions.
(d) Pro- and anti-Africa feelings.

4. What is the counterpart to the hermeneutics of memory according to Gilroy?
(a) A hermeneutics of liberty.
(b) A hermeneutics of salvation.
(c) A hermeneutics of self-reliance.
(d) A hermeneutics of suspicion.

5. What does Gilroy say modern historical conditions require of race concepts?
(a) Return to origins.
(b) Essentialism.
(c) Practical applications.
(d) Developmental progression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea permeates slave consciousness, according to Gilroy?

2. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

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

4. What critique does black consciousness make of modernity?

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

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