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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?
(a) Confirms them.
(b) Explodes them.
(c) Challenges them.
(d) Revises them.

3. Who was Martin Robison Delany?
(a) An abolitionist.
(b) The father of black nationalism.
(c) A cultural critic who wrote about race.
(d) A historian.

4. What has been superseded by economic, social and cultural forces, according to Gilroy?
(a) The nation-state.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Race.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What concept has captured leftist thinkers in the academy according to Gilroy?

3. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

4. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?

5. What does Gilroy say modern racial concepts do too much of?

(see the answer key)

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