Lies My Teacher Told Me Chapters 1 & 2

Question 1

Helen Keller the first deaf / blind person to learn to speak...

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

What should Woodrow Wilson's Latin American policy have been called?

Accepted Answer

Bad Neighbor Policy

Question 3

Who is the only other person the US honors by name with a national holiday?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 4

What are the three great taboos in textbook publishing?

Accepted Answer

Sex, Religion, and Social Class

Question 5

Do we really know who Christopher Columbus is?

Accepted Answer

Nah

Question 6

What was the main theme of chapter 2?

Accepted Answer

The "discovery" of America has been warped and white washed

Question 7

What was Woodrow Wilson's true identity?

Accepted Answer

A white supremacist

Question 8

Where did the first explorers travel from and to where?

Accepted Answer

Siberia -> Alaska

Question 9

Who are textbooks for and by?

Accepted Answer

Descendants of the Europeans

Question 10

What was the main theme of chapter 1?

Accepted Answer

Heroification of historical figures

Questions 10