How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

engaging in a debate

giving a speech

answering a question in class

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

anti-White

homophobic

sexist

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

Denial

Self-interest

Anger

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race

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

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

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

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent

activists

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

tactics

people

discrimination

ideas
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Systemic racism

Structural racism

Racist policy

Racist discrimination
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

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Segregation

Assimilation

Separation

Antiracism
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Reagan

Clinton

Nixon

Bush
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a person of color

a member of the global South

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

popularize racist ideas

criticize the slave trade

implement racist power

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

Biology

Culture

Policy

Ethnicity
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

She told him he was not smart enough

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

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

"racist abuse"

"racism"

"discrimination"

"prejudice"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup

the races are all different but equal in those differences

"inferior" races should be treated differently
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

2

10

0.5
22 Kwame was from

Gabon

Ghana

Gambia

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 did not believe they were selling their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

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

Dominican Republic

Brazil

Haiti

Jamaica

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