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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. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?

2. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?

3. When was The Negro a Beast published?

4. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

5. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author define a "behavioral racist"?

2. How does the author define "colorism"?

3. What is a "class racist"?

4. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

5. What does "Black Lives Matter" refer to?

6. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

7. What does "gender racism" refer to?

8. Why did the student-leaders at FAMU direct a silent march in November of 2000?

9. How is the term "anti-White racist" defined?

10. What does Brown v. Board of Education refer to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's journey to become an antiracist. What are some of the failings that the author discusses along this journey? How did Kendi overcome these failings? What struggles does the author face today?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss the term "microaggression." What does this term mean to you? How is it defined by the author? Why does the author oppose this term? What does he replace it with? Why?

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