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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 177 - 233).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the end of Chapter 17, what does Menakem tell the reader s/he has the power to do, above all?
(a) Transform other people's lives.
(b) Sing.
(c) Eat.
(d) Heal.

2. Which of the following forms does the pain of white progressives sometimes take, according to Menakem?
(a) White suspicion.
(b) White flight.
(c) White heartache.
(d) White guilt.

3. What would Menakem's grandmother frequently do to try to comfort herself?
(a) Rock her body or hum.
(b) Read.
(c) Garden.
(d) Run.

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Charles Blow.
(c) Brent Staples.
(d) Jonathan Capeheart.

5. In which state were more white people lynched than Black people?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is white-body supremacy so intractable?

2. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

3. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

5. What is the truth about white bodies, according to Menakem in Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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