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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. Whose consciousness is Black Atlantic focused on?
(a) Indigenous people.
(b) Anglo-Africans.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Africans.

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

3. What does Gilroy say is the fact of racial life?
(a) Races are strictly segregated in de facto fashion.
(b) There are no clear boundaries between people.
(c) Governments are heavily invested in maintaining the distinction between races.
(d) Race is a matter of choice and identification.

4. What has race been left out of, in Gilroy's opinion?
(a) Utopian visions.
(b) The idea of modernity.
(c) Modern visions of socialism.
(d) The idea of capitalism.

5. How does Gilroy describe slavery's relation to western civilization?
(a) A shameful secret.
(b) An untold story.
(c) A footnote.
(d) A key part.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the notion of the black Atlantic opposed to as Gilroy defines it?

2. How does Gilroy characterize defenders of modernity's attitude toward the African diaspora?

3. How does Gilroy characterize postmodernity?

4. What does Gilroy say the language of ethnic opposition typically does?

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

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