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

engaging in a debate

giving a speech
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
anti-Black

homophobic

anti-White

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

Self-interest

Anger

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
non-racism

colorblindness with regard to race

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

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
Christians

activists

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
ideas

people

discrimination

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Structural racism

Racist discrimination

Racist policy

Systemic racism
9 Racist ideas...
suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

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 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?
Assimilation

Segregation

Separation

Antiracism
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Nixon

Clinton

Reagan

Bush
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
W.E.B. Du Bois

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marcus Garvey

Booker T. Washington
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
a member of the global South

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a person of color

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power

criticize the slave trade

popularize racist ideas
16 _______ came first, not race.
Ethnicity

Biology

Policy

Culture
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She told him he was not smart enough

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was rude to his parents
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"racism"

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

"discrimination"
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
go extinct

be enslaved

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?
10

2

0.5

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Gabon

Ghana

Gambia

Angola
23 Ethnic racism began with
the curse of Ham

the slave trade

the Civil War

the formation of the American colonies
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

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

Haiti

Brazil

Dominican Republic

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