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-White

anti-Black

homophobic

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

Denial

History

Anger
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
antiracism

non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

Black people cannot be racist

It is better to work on changing people than policies

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

intelligent

part of the Nation of Islam

activists
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

discrimination

people

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

Racist discrimination

Systemic racism

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

are not permanent and can shift with work

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 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

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

Separation

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

Reagan

Nixon

Clinton
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
not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a person of color

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
popularize racist ideas

defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power

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

Culture

Ethnicity

Policy
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
"racism"

"racist abuse"

"prejudice"

"discrimination"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
the races are all different but equal in those differences

races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

there is a racial hierarchy
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

0.5

0.1

10
22 Kwame was from
Gabon

Ghana

Angola

Gambia
23 Ethnic racism began with
the slave trade

the Civil War

the curse of Ham

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

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Haiti

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

Brazil

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