How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
giving a speech

engaging in a debate

answering a question in class

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

homophobic

anti-Black

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

History

Self-interest

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
colorblindness with regard to race

antiracism

non-racism

neutrality in regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
Black people cannot be racist

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

It is better to work on changing people than policies

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

activists

part of the Nation of Islam

Christians
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
people

ideas

discrimination

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Racist policy

Structural racism

Systemic racism

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

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

are not permanent and can shift with work

[All of these statements are true.]
10 In the 1980s and 1990s, Kendi's parents believed all the following except
Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism
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?
Clinton

Bush

Reagan

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

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
criticize the slave trade

defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power

popularize racist ideas
16 _______ came first, not race.
Culture

Policy

Biology

Ethnicity
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was rude to his parents

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

"discrimination"

"prejudice"

"racism"
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
go extinct

be enslaved

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?
10

2

0.5

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Gabon

Angola

Gambia

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

the Civil War

the slave trade

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They believed all Africans were the same

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They actively sold their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Brazil

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

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