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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. How does Gilroy characterize modern subjectivity?
(a) Unique.
(b) Decentralized.
(c) Ancient.
(d) Neurotic.

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

3. How does Gilroy characterize the relation that binds the master race to the slave race?
(a) Absolute power.
(b) Subservience.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Freedom.

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

5. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?
(a) Accommodationist.
(b) Pluralistic.
(c) Modern.
(d) Essential.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Martin Robison Delany vocally critical of, as Gilroy tells it?

2. What does Gilroy say postmodernism claims for itself?

3. Whose challenges does Gilroy take up in the first section of the chapter?

4. What function does the first chapter serve?

5. What literary form does Gilroy say gave blacks access to self-creation?

(see the answer key)

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