Saturday, November 26, 2022

critical race theory quiz

 

 

For some reason, there seems to be a lot of confusion about critical race theory. In order to help clear up some up that confusion, the 10-question quiz posted below should help you. All of the correct answers are posted at the end of the quiz. Some questions may have more than one answer.

 

ONE -  What IS critical race theory?

 

A - a popular topic on the FOX network

B - a popular talking point in political elections

C - a theoretical framework or paradigm that seeks to uncover the ways that institutional, structural, and systemic racism operate and manifest in peaople’s lives and in society

D - a compilation of rules created by NASCAR to make the sport more competitive

 

TWO  - What was the Indian removal Act?

 

A - an 1830 law that forced removal of Native Americans from Florida and other states to Oklahoma

B -  Legislation that changed the name of Cleveland’s professional baseball team to the Guardians    

C -  Legislation that made the Indian motorcycle brand less competitive than Harley-Davidson motorcycles

D -  Legislation that forced the removal of barbershop Indian statues

 

THREE -  What did Executive Order 9066 do?

A -   Forced relocation of Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps in WWII.

B -   It was one of 9537 Executive Orders signed by FDR during his 4 terms in office

C -  Authorizing the Governor of the Panama Canal to Furnish Certain Transportation to Persons Engaged for Service on the Isthmus of Panama

D -  It was the 10th Executive Order signed in 1942

 

FOUR -  What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

 

A -  It prevented China becoming a member from being a member of the United Nations

B -  It limited the admission of Chinese nationals to the United States in order to preserve the “good order” of certain locations

C - It prevented the importation of vehicles made in China

D -  It excluded Mandarin from Google Translate

 

FIVE  -  What was the original name for Mount Rushmore?

 

A -  Rocky Top

B - The Six Grandfathers

C - Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe

D -  Big Rock Candy Mountain

 

SIX -    When was the first anti-lunching law passed in the United States?

 

A - 1918

B - 1998

C - 2021

D - 2022

 

SEVEN -  What was the cause of the Tulsa race riots?


A-  The “roaring 20’s prosperity did not result in prosperity to black Americans in Tulsa, and they rioted on May 31, 1921

B -  A Negro man allegedly raped a white elevator operator

C -  it never happened

D -  fans were prevented from attending Donald Trump’s rally on June 20, 2021.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/arts/television/watchmen-tulsa-race-riot.html

 

EIGHT -  Who were the Little Rock Nine?


A -  Nine Negro students who integrated Little Rock high school in 1957

B -  The starting lineup for the city’s semi-pro baseball team

C - An Arkansas musical choral group first started n 1940

D -  A stitch in time saved them

 

NINE -  Who was Emmett Till?





 A - 14-year-old Negro boy from Chicago was murdered in Money, Mississippi while vacationing with his cousins

B - A black northern boy who attempted to seduce a white woman

C -  A young man who is buried in the Oak Lawn cemetery in Chicago

D -  His mother was active in the Civil Rights era

 

TEN - Who was John Lewis?

 

A -  A leader in the civil rights movement. His middle initial was R.

B - A representative for Georgia’s Fifth district from 1986 to his death in 2021

C - A founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

D - Former president of the United Mine Workers

 

 Here are the answers:


 1a – a popular topic on FOX – mentioned 1300 times between March and June of 2021

https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-critical-race-theory-mentions-thousand-study-2021-6

1b. Glenn Younkin used the topic to get elected, and banned it two hours after taking office

https://nypost.com/2022/01/15/virginia-gov-glenn-youngkin-bans-critical-race-theory-school-mask-rules/

1c. A theoretical framework or paradigm that seeks to uncover the ways that institutional, structural, and systemic racism operate and manifest in people’s lives and in society is Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Bonilla-Silva, 1997; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Solorzano and Yosso, 2000. If is a college level course, and is not taught in lower grade levels in America

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/race-and-ethnicity-hub/what-critical-race-theory

d. not true at all, but the 7th Generation car WAS designed to make the sport more competitive

2a – On March 28, 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, beginning the forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans in what became known as the Trail of Tears. Not all members of Congress supported the Indian Removal Act. Tennessee Rep. Davey Crockett was a vocal opponent, for instance. Native Americans opposed removal from their ancestral lands, resulting in a long series of battles with local white settlers. But the forced relocation proved popular with voters. It freed more than 25 million acres of fertilelucrative farmland to mostly white settlement in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/indian-removal-act

2b. the change was made because the former name was considered offensive

2c. no law was passed, but the company found itself unable to compete with Harley-Davidson and other brands. Indian Motorcycle (or Indian) is an American brand of motorcycles owned and produced by American automotive manufacturer Polaris Inc. . Originally produced from 1901 to 1953 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, Hendee Manufacturing Company initially produced the motorcycles, but the name was changed to the Indian Motocycle Company in 1923. In 2011, Polaris Industries purchased the Indian motorcycle marque and moved operations from North Carolina and merged them into their existing facilities in Minnesota and Iowa. Since August 2013, Polaris has designed, engineered, and manufactured multiple lines of motorcycles under the Indian Motorcycle brand that reflect Indian's traditional styling.

2d) no law like this was ever passed

 3a) During WWII, the United States  forcibly relocated and incarcerated at least 125,284 people of Japanese descent in 75 identified incarceration sites. Most lived on the Pacific Coast, in concentration camps in the western interior of the country. Approximately two-thirds of the inmates were United States citizens These actions were initiated by president Franklin D. Roosevelt via an executive order shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

 3b) FDR signed more Executive Orders than any other president

3c) this was actually Executive Order 9064

3d) It was one of 42 Executive Orders signed in January of 1942, but it was not the 10th one signed.

 4a) Although China was not admitted to the United Nations until 1971, the delay was caused by a general distrust of the Chinese communist government.

https://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/14107/this-day-in-history-prc-admitted-into-the-un

4b) The Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.

In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. For the first time, federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic

working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. The law remained in force until 1965, and it was finally condemned by Congress in 2011.

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/chinese-exclusion-act

4c) No such law exists, but the first Chinese-made vehicle imported to the United States did not occur until 2015

https://www.thatsmags.com/beijing/post/14107/this-day-in-history-prc-admitted-into-the-un

4d) Mandarin has always been an option on Google Translate

 

5a) It was actually a country song introduced on Christmas Day of 1967       

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9prNixjbg

5b) Originally known as The Six Grandfathers, it became Mount Rushmore after a visit by a New York lawyer named Charles Rushmore in 1885.

https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/mount-rushmore-1

https://blog.nativehope.org/six-grandfathers-before-it-was-known-as-mount-rushmore

5c) this was the Lakota language translation of The Six Grandfathers

5d) originally a song released in 1928, it is now a resort in the Ozarks of Missouri

 

6a) The first anti-lunching bill was the Dyer Anti-Lynching Law was introduced to Congress on April 1, 1918, but it did not become law

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

6b) 1998 was the last known lynching in America

6c) Although no one was lynched, gallows was erected on the grounds of the United States Capitol, and participants threatened to hand Mike Pence

6) President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching bill on March 29, 2022

 7a) not true

7b) A black man allegedly raped a white female elevator operator, and white residences destroyed an affluent black community named Greenwood

7c) also not true

7d) there many empty seats in the rented venue, and some attendees contracted COVID. There was at least one death (Herman Cain) as a result of lax preventive measures

 

8a) This was actually true. President Eisenhower had to call in the National Guard to protect them

8b) Arkansas is home to TWO minor league baseball teams

8c) Arkansas is home to ten choral groups

https://www.singers.com/lists/choral-groups/arkansas/

8d) The expression ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ originates from 18th-century England. The original use of the phrase described prompt patching or sewing of small holes or tears in clothing or textile materials. Stitching it as soon as possible prevents the tear or hole from getting bigger, requiring more repair work in the future.

The phrase’s first use refers to saving nine stitches in a repair job. However, this proverbial saying went on to describe any situation where taking immediate action to remedy it results in fewer problems down the road.

 https://english-grammar-lessons.com/a-stitch-in-time-saves-nine-meaning/

9a. this is true

9b. Not true, but it was alleged at the trial of the two men who murdered Till

9c. the casket was originally buried in Oak Lawn cemetery, but is now at the National Museum of African American History and Culture museum in Washington D.C.

9d) Also true. The NAACP asked Mamie Till Bradley to tour the country relating the events of her son's life, death, and the trial of his murderers. It was one of the most successful fundraising campaigns the NAACP had ever conducted. Journalist Louis Lomax acknowledges Till's death to be the start of what he terms the "Negro revolt", and scholar Clenora Hudson-Weems characterizes Till as a "sacrificial lamb" for civil rights. NAACP operative Amzie Moore considers Till the start of the Civil Rights Movement, at the very least, in Mississippi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

 10a. A leader in the civil rights movement

10b. true

10c, also true

10d. Also true, but his middle initial was “L”

https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/16948

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Lewis#:~:text=John%20Llewellyn%20Lewis%20was%20an%20American%20leader%20of,the%20CIO%20in%201941%2C%20Lewis%20took%20the%20United

         

 

Here’s the answers:

 

ONE - a, b, and c

TWO -  a

THREE -  a and b

FOUR - b

FIVE - b and c

SIX - d

SEVEN - b

EIGHT - a

NINE - all of them

TEN - a, b, and c


 Scoring:

 

1 or 2 – you own a MAGA hat, and you know what “Let’s go Brandon" really means

3 or 4 – you watch FOX “news” too much

5 or 6 – you are better than average

7 or 8 – when can you start teaching?

9 or 10 – have you considered working for a news network?

 

         

 



No comments:

Post a Comment