How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
answering a question in class

engaging in a debate

giving a speech

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

sexist

homophobic

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

Denial

Anger

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?
It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
part of the Nation of Islam

activists

Christians

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
discrimination

people

ideas

tactics
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
Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

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

uplifting the Black race was possible
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?
Reagan

Bush

Clinton

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South

a person of color

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

popularize racist ideas

criticize the slave trade

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

Biology

Culture

Ethnicity
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
"racist abuse"

"prejudice"

"discrimination"

"racism"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would
be enslaved

go extinct

assimilate

[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?
0.5

10

2

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

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

the slave trade

the Civil War

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They did not believe they were selling their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They actively sold their own people

They believed all Africans were the same
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Brazil

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

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