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

homophobic

anti-White

sexist

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

Self-interest

Anger

Denial

History
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

neutrality in regard to race

non-racism

colorblindness with regard to race

antiracism
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Black people cannot be racist

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

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

Christians

activists

intelligent

part of the Nation of Islam
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

people

tactics

discrimination

ideas
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Systemic racism

Racist discrimination

Structural racism

Racist policy
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

Antiracism

Assimilation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Clinton

Bush

Reagan

Nixon
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

a person of color

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South
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.

Biology

Policy

Culture

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 told him he was not smart enough

She was rude to his parents
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers

"racism"

"discrimination"

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"
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

assimilate

be enslaved

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?

10

2

0.5

0.1
22 Kwame was from

Gambia

Angola

Gabon

Ghana
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 believed all Africans were the same

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from

Haiti

Brazil

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

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