How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

engaging in a debate

answering a question in class

giving a speech

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

homophobic

sexist

anti-Black

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

Denial

Self-interest

Anger

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

neutrality in regard to race

antiracism

colorblindness with regard to race

non-racism
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

It is better to work on changing people than policies

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

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

intelligent

Christians

activists

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

ideas

tactics

discrimination

people
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Systemic racism

Structural racism

Racist discrimination

Racist policy
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-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

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

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"?

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a member of the global South

a person of color

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

criticize the slave trade

implement racist power

popularize racist ideas

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

Biology

Ethnicity

Policy

Culture
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

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

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

"racist abuse"

"discrimination"

"prejudice"

"racism"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup
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?

0.1

10

0.5

2
22 Kwame was from

Gambia

Gabon

Angola

Ghana
23 Ethnic racism began with

the Civil War

the slave trade

the curse of Ham

the formation of the American colonies
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?

They actively sold their own people

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
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from

Jamaica

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Brazil

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