How to Be an Antiracist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Ibram X. Kendi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

Ibram X. Kendi
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

2. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 13.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

3. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Internalized racism.
(b) Cultural racism.
(c) Institutionalized racism.
(d) Individualized racism.

4. Where did the author's mother attend college?
(a) Nyack College.
(b) Baruch College.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 14,634.
(b) 45,353.
(c) 29,245.
(d) 22,748.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

2. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

4. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?

5. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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