How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
playing a basketball game

giving a speech

answering a question in class

engaging in a debate
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?
Anger

Denial

Self-interest

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race

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

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

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

intelligent

part of the Nation of Islam

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
ideas

tactics

people

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

Racist discrimination

Systemic racism

Racist policy
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 people could never climb the ladder because of racism

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

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

Antiracism

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

Nixon

Reagan

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

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

W.E.B. Du Bois
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
criticize the slave trade

defend Africans from enslavers

popularize racist ideas

implement racist power
16 _______ came first, not race.
Culture

Ethnicity

Policy

Biology
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was rude to his parents

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

She told him he was not smart enough
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"racism"

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

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

"inferior" races should be treated differently

races are biologically different in their makeup

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?
0.1

0.5

2

10
22 Kwame was from
Gambia

Gabon

Ghana

Angola
23 Ethnic racism began with
the formation of the American colonies

the slave trade

the curse of Ham

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

They believed all Africans were the same

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
Dominican Republic

Jamaica

Haiti

Brazil

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