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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 function does the first chapter serve?
(a) Humorous analogy.
(b) Conceptual background.
(c) Anecdotal introduction.
(d) Historical perspective.

2. What does Gilroy say about the realities of black experiences on both sides of the Atlantic?
(a) They are unified around the experience of slavery.
(b) They are not well theorized.
(c) They do not fit into neat categories.
(d) They are centered on the experience of the exploitations of capitalism.

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

4. What idea does Gilroy say black consciousness forces us to revise?
(a) The idea of inalienable rights.
(b) The idea that capitalism brings progress wherever it goes.
(c) The idea of equality between workers, men and women, and the races.
(d) The idea of the cultural center and the periphery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Martin Robison Delany?

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

3. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

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

5. Whose point of view does Gilroy want to include in history?

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