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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) 1865 through 1955.
(b) 1700 through 1895.
(c) 1966 through the present.
(d) 1900 through 1965.

2. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Torture and Empathy.
(b) Sympathy and Elegance.
(c) Whiteness and Blackness.
(d) Right and wrong.

3. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) A tool of the ruling class.
(b) A hope.
(c) A myth.
(d) An obstacle.

4. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recall an incident when they felt most comfortable at work.
(b) Recall an incident when they lost a job.
(c) Recall an incident when they first thought a white body might want comfort or protection from them.
(d) Recall an incident when they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Officer Betty Shelby say she shot Terence Crutcher?

3. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

4. Who drove his motorcycle at high speed and was then pulled over and shot by a police officer in 2016?

5. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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