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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. Where does Gilroy say modern black politics is located in relation to Western civilization?
(a) Both inside and outside.
(b) Everywhere throughout.
(c) Underneath.
(d) At the periphery.

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

3. What does Gilroy assert in opposition to these master-race intellectuals?
(a) That race only applies for people who are marked by visible racial characteristics.
(b) That history cannot be stripped of slavery.
(c) That race is ultimately optional.
(d) That race has its own uniqueness.

4. How does Gilroy characterize the consciousness of the slave?
(a) A process of liberation.
(b) An act of mourning.
(c) An internalized history.
(d) An act of hostility.

5. What relation does Gilroy describe as fundamental to the black experience?
(a) The bourgeois-proletarian relation.
(b) The relation of blood enemies.
(c) The master-slave relation.
(d) The leader-follower relation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gilroy say black intellectuals have gone to get in touch with elements of modern subjectivity?

2. What does Gilroy say modern thinkers focus on in describing modernity?

3. What does the concept of the Black Atlantic do to old notions of race, according to Gilroy?

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

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

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