How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
giving a speech

playing a basketball game

engaging in a debate

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

anti-Black

homophobic

sexist
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?
History

Self-interest

Anger

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
antiracism

colorblindness with regard to race

neutrality in regard to race

non-racism
5 Which of the following statements is true?
Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

It is better to work on changing people than policies
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
activists

intelligent

Christians

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

discrimination

ideas

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Systemic racism

Racist discrimination

Structural racism

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

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

are not permanent and can shift with work

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

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

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

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

Separation

Assimilation

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

Bush

Clinton

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

W.E.B. Du Bois

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
a person of color

a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
implement racist power

defend Africans from enslavers

criticize the slave trade

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

Ethnicity

Biology

Policy
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She told him he was not smart enough

She was rude to his parents

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

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"racist abuse"

"prejudice"

"racism"

"discrimination"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy
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?
0.5

2

0.1

10
22 Kwame was from
Angola

Ghana

Gambia

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the slave trade

the Civil War

the curse of Ham

the formation of the American colonies
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Brazil

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Haiti

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