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

playing a basketball game

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

homophobic

anti-White

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

Anger

Denial

Self-interest
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
antiracism

non-racism

colorblindness with regard to race

neutrality in regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
Black people cannot be racist

It is better to work on changing people than policies

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
activists

part of the Nation of Islam

Christians

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
people

discrimination

ideas

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Racist policy

Systemic racism

Racist discrimination

Structural racism
9 Racist ideas...
are not permanent and can shift with work

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

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

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?
Assimilation

Antiracism

Segregation

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

Clinton

Reagan

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 person of color

a member of the global South

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

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

criticize the slave trade

implement racist power

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

Biology

Ethnicity

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"

"prejudice"

"racism"

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

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup

the races are all different but equal in those differences
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?
2

10

0.5

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Ghana

Gambia

Gabon

Angola
23 Ethnic racism began with
the slave trade

the curse of Ham

the Civil War

the formation of the American colonies
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They believed all Africans were the same

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Haiti

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

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