How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
engaging in a debate

playing a basketball game

giving a speech

answering a question in class
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
homophobic

anti-Black

anti-White

sexist
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?
Self-interest

Denial

Anger

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

antiracism

colorblindness with regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

Black people cannot be racist
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
intelligent

Christians

activists

part of the Nation of Islam
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

people

discrimination

ideas
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Racist discrimination

Racist policy

Structural racism

Systemic racism
9 Racist ideas...
claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

are not permanent and can shift with work

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

[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

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?
Separation

Assimilation

Segregation

Antiracism
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Bush

Clinton

Reagan

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Marcus Garvey

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South

a person of color
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
implement racist power

criticize the slave trade

defend Africans from enslavers

popularize racist ideas
16 _______ came first, not race.
Ethnicity

Policy

Biology

Culture
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She told him he was not smart enough

She was rude to his parents
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"discrimination"

"racist abuse"

"racism"

"prejudice"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
there is a racial hierarchy

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

races are biologically different in their makeup
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would
go extinct

assimilate

be enslaved

[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?
2

0.1

10

0.5
22 Kwame was from
Gambia

Gabon

Angola

Ghana
23 Ethnic racism began with
the Civil War

the slave trade

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They actively sold their own people

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

They are just as bad as white enslavers
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Haiti

Brazil

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

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