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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 did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?
2. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?
3. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
4. 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)?
5. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is an "assimilationist"?
2. What are the origins of ethnic racism, according to the author?
3. Why does the author prefer the term "racist policy" over "institutional racism" or "systemic racism"?
4. Why does the author no longer use the term "microaggression" anymore?
5. How are the terms "bodily racist" and "bodily antiracist" defined?
6. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?
7. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?
8. What are "polygenesis" and "monogenesis"?
9. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?
10. How is a "biological racist" defined by the author?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the author define the term "antiracist"? How is this different from being "not a racist"? How does the author define "racism"? Why are these definitions important?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the biography and career of author Ibram X. Kendi. When and where was the author born? What was his childhood like? How did his childhood and upbringing influence his ideas on race and racism?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss three allusions or references to literature in How to Be an Antiracist. What work is cited or referenced? Who wrote this work? What ideas did the work promote? Why does the author discuss this work in the book?
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