How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

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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

homophobic

anti-Black

sexist

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

Self-interest

History

Denial

Anger
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race

non-racism

antiracism
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Black people cannot be racist

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

Christians

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

people

discrimination

ideas

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Racist discrimination

Structural racism

Racist policy

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 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

uplifting the Black race was possible
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Segregation

Assimilation

Antiracism

Separation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Clinton

Reagan

Nixon

Bush
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

W.E.B. Du Bois
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a person of color

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.

Biology

Ethnicity

Policy

Culture
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

She told him he was not smart enough

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

She was rude to his parents

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

"racist abuse"

"racism"

"discrimination"

"prejudice"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

the races are all different but equal in those differences

"inferior" races should be treated differently

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup
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?

10

2

0.1

0.5
22 Kwame was from

Angola

Gambia

Ghana

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham

the Civil War

the slave trade
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

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

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

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