How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
engaging in a debate

playing a basketball game

answering a question in class

giving a speech
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
sexist

homophobic

anti-Black

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

Anger

Self-interest

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

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race

non-racism
5 Which of the following statements is true?
One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

Black people cannot be racist

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

It is better to work on changing people than policies
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
part of the Nation of Islam

activists

intelligent

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
people

ideas

tactics

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

Systemic racism

Structural racism

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
uplifting the Black race was possible

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
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?
Antiracism

Segregation

Assimilation

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

Bush

Clinton

Reagan
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
implement racist power

defend Africans from enslavers

popularize racist ideas

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

Ethnicity

Culture

Policy
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
"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

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy
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?
2

10

0.5

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Angola
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 are just as bad as white enslavers

They believed all Africans were the same

They did not believe they were selling their own people

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

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Brazil

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