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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was The Origin of Species published?
2. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
3. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
4. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
5. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Black Power movement?
2. What is an "assimilationist"?
3. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?
4. What, according to the author, is the problem with being "not racist"?
5. Why was the author giving a speech in the scenario he described in the Introduction? What was the speech about?
6. What led the author to "protest" in third grade?
7. Describe the racial inequity of the U.S. prison population.
8. Why does the author assert that definitions are important?
9. How are denial and racism connected, according to the author in the Introduction?
10. What does "affirmative action" refer to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss three pop cultural allusions or references in How to Be and Antiracist. What work, song, film, celebrity, or artist is referenced? In what context are they cited? Why does the author use this reference in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the topic of suasion. What does this term mean? How is it applied in a racial context? What does "respectability politics" mean and how is it related to suasion?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the speech that the author describes giving in the Introduction. What were the main points in the speech? Why does the author feel shame about the speech? How was the speech received? Why does the author include this story in the book?
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