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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. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?
(a) 1700 through 1895.
(b) 1900 through 1965.
(c) 1966 through the present.
(d) 1865 through 1955.

2. Why did Officer Betty Shelby say she shot Terence Crutcher?
(a) She was scared she was going to die.
(b) Her partner told her Crutcher looked guilty.
(c) Her partner told her he did not have a gun and he felt threatened.
(d) She thought he had robbed a bank.

3. What does writer Nikki Giovanni say happens when you do not understand yourself in her quote in Chapter 9?
(a) Then you do not know anybody else.
(b) You will never be at peace.
(c) You can never be in love.
(d) You will always be stressed.

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

5. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?
(a) Laquan McDonald's.
(b) Tamir Rice's.
(c) Tariq James's.
(d) Michael Brown's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is white-body supremacy so intractable?

2. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

3. What years defined the Middle Ages?

4. What does the comedian Jon Stewart say about law enforcement in the beginning of Chapter 17?

5. Healing does not occur in which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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