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
sexist

anti-White

anti-Black

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

History

Denial

Anger
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
colorblindness with regard to race

non-racism

antiracism

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

Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
Christians

intelligent

activists

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

people

tactics

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

Racist policy

Racist discrimination

Systemic racism
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 who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

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

Separation

Segregation

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

Clinton

Reagan

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

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
criticize the slave trade

implement racist power

popularize racist ideas

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

Ethnicity

Biology

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 was rude to his parents

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"prejudice"

"racism"

"racist abuse"

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

there is a racial hierarchy

the races are all different but equal in those differences

races are biologically different in their makeup
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would
assimilate

go extinct

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?
0.5

10

2

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Ghana

Angola

Gambia

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the Civil War

the slave trade

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They actively sold their own people

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
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Haiti

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

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