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

engaging in a debate

answering a question in class
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?
Self-interest

Anger

History

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

antiracism

neutrality in regard to race

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

Black people cannot be racist

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

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

Christians

part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

ideas

people

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

Structural racism

Systemic racism

Racist discrimination
9 Racist ideas...
claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

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?
Separation

Antiracism

Assimilation

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

Reagan

Nixon

Clinton
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Du Bois
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a person of color

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
popularize racist ideas

criticize the slave trade

defend Africans from enslavers

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

Culture

Biology

Ethnicity
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She was rude to his parents

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She told him he was not smart enough

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"racist abuse"

"prejudice"

"racism"

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

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy

"inferior" races should be treated differently
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

2

10

0.5
22 Kwame was from
Gambia

Ghana

Angola

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the Civil War

the curse of Ham

the slave trade

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

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

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

Haiti

Brazil

Dominican Republic

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