How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
answering a question in class

playing a basketball game

giving a speech

engaging in a debate
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?
Self-interest

Anger

History

Denial
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?
One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

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

intelligent

part of the Nation of Islam

activists
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
people

discrimination

tactics

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

Racist policy

Systemic racism

Structural racism
9 Racist ideas...
are not permanent and can shift with work

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

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

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

uplifting the Black race was possible

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

Segregation

Separation

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

Nixon

Bush

Clinton
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King, Jr.
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a member of the global South

a person of color

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

popularize racist ideas

defend Africans from enslavers

criticize the slave trade
16 _______ came first, not race.
Policy

Culture

Ethnicity

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

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
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"discrimination"

"racist abuse"

"prejudice"

"racism"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
"inferior" races should be treated differently

races are biologically different in their makeup

there is a racial hierarchy

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

go extinct

assimilate

[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

0.5

0.1

10
22 Kwame was from
Ghana

Gambia

Angola

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the Civil War

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham

the slave trade
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They believed all Africans were the same

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

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

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Haiti

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