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

playing a basketball game

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

anti-White

sexist

anti-Black

homophobic
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?

History

Anger

Self-interest

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

non-racism

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Black people cannot be racist

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

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent

activists

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

discrimination

people

ideas

tactics
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

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

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

uplifting the Black race was possible

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
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Segregation

Separation

Assimilation

Antiracism
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Bush

Reagan

Nixon

Clinton
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Marcus Garvey

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a member of the global South

a person of color

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities
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.

Ethnicity

Biology

Policy

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 told him he was not smart enough

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

"racism"

"discrimination"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy

races are biologically different in their makeup
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

2

10

0.1
22 Kwame was from

Gambia

Ghana

Angola

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with

the curse of Ham

the formation of the American colonies

the slave trade

the Civil War
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They believed all Africans were the same

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

Dominican Republic

Brazil

Jamaica

Haiti

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