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

answering a question in class

engaging in a debate
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
anti-Black

homophobic

sexist

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

Self-interest

History

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

non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

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

Black people cannot be racist

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
part of the Nation of Islam

intelligent

Christians

activists
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

discrimination

ideas

people
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

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

[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

Antiracism

Assimilation

Separation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Clinton

Bush

Reagan

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey
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
defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power

criticize the slave trade

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

Policy

Culture

Biology
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She told him he was not smart enough

She was rude to his parents

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

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

"prejudice"

"racism"

"racist abuse"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy

"inferior" races should be treated differently

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?
2

10

0.1

0.5
22 Kwame was from
Angola

Gambia

Ghana

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the slave trade

the Civil War

the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They actively sold their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

They are just as bad as white enslavers

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

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

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