How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

giving a speech

engaging in a debate

answering a question in class

playing a basketball game
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is

anti-Black

sexist

anti-White

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

Denial

Anger

Self-interest

History
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?

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

part of the Nation of Islam

activists

Christians

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

people

ideas

discrimination

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Systemic racism

Structural racism

Racist policy

Racist discrimination
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

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?

Separation

Assimilation

Antiracism

Segregation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Nixon

Reagan

Clinton

Bush
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington
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

criticize the slave trade

popularize racist ideas

implement racist power

defend Africans from enslavers
16 _______ came first, not race.

Policy

Ethnicity

Biology

Culture
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was rude to his parents

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

She told him he was not smart enough
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers

"racism"

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

"discrimination"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

races are biologically different in their makeup

there is a racial hierarchy

the races are all different but equal in those differences

"inferior" races should be treated differently
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?

0.1

10

0.5

2
22 Kwame was from

Angola

Gambia

Gabon

Ghana
23 Ethnic racism began with

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham

the slave trade

the Civil War
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

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

Haiti

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