How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

giving a speech

answering a question in class

playing a basketball game

engaging in a debate
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is

anti-Black

homophobic

sexist

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

History

Self-interest

Anger

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

non-racism

antiracism

colorblindness with regard to race

neutrality in regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

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

Christians

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent

activists
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

tactics

people

ideas

discrimination
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Structural racism

Systemic racism

Racist discrimination

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

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Segregation

Assimilation

Separation

Antiracism
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Clinton

Nixon

Bush

Reagan
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a person of color

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
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to

implement racist power

popularize racist ideas

criticize the slave trade

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

"discrimination"

"racism"

"racist abuse"

"prejudice"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would

assimilate

be enslaved

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

0.1

0.5

2
22 Kwame was from

Gambia

Angola

Gabon

Ghana
23 Ethnic racism began with

the slave trade

the formation of the American colonies

the Civil War

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

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

They did not believe they were selling their own people

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

Haiti

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Brazil

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