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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. How does Gilroy say we should look at the history of race in the West?
(a) As the collision of two defined cultures.
(b) As an opposition of black and white essences.
(c) As a long cooperative experiment.
(d) As a conjunction of races.

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

3. What limitations are ideas of race experiencing in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) They are too rural.
(b) They are too cosmopolitan.
(c) They are too nationalistic.
(d) They are too essentialist.

4. 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 methods of narrating black history.
(d) The abolition movement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize identity?

2. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

3. What kind of conception of blackness does Gilroy say he prefers?

4. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?

5. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?

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