How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

engaging in a debate

answering a question in class

playing a basketball game

giving a speech
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is

anti-White

sexist

homophobic

anti-Black
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?

Anger

Denial

Self-interest

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race

non-racism

colorblindness with regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

It is better to work on changing people than policies

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except

activists

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

people

ideas

discrimination

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Structural racism

Racist discrimination

Racist policy

Systemic racism
9 Racist ideas...

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

are not permanent and can shift with work

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

[All of these statements are true.]
10 In the 1980s and 1990s, Kendi's parents believed all the following except

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Separation

Antiracism

Segregation

Assimilation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Reagan

Nixon

Bush

Clinton
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Marcus Garvey

W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a person of color

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to

criticize the slave trade

implement racist power

popularize racist ideas

defend Africans from enslavers
16 _______ came first, not race.

Ethnicity

Culture

Biology

Policy
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

She was rude to his parents

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She told him he was not smart enough

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

"discrimination"

"racism"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

races are biologically different in their makeup

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy

"inferior" races should be treated differently
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would

be enslaved

assimilate

go extinct

[All of these answers apply.]
21 According to the mapping of the human genome, what percentage of difference is there between people on a genetic level?

0.1

10

2

0.5
22 Kwame was from

Ghana

Gabon

Gambia

Angola
23 Ethnic racism began with

the slave trade

the Civil War

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Brazil

Jamaica

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