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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 111 - 175).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?
(a) Roughly 500 through 700.
(b) Roughly 1200 through 1400.
(c) Roughly 1700 through 1800.
(d) Roughly 1500 through 1610.

2. Which of the following is settling a body explicitly NOT the same thing as, according to Menakem?
(a) Engaging with community.
(b) Healing.
(c) Staying fit.
(d) Teaching.

3. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As unifying.
(b) As binary.
(c) As political.
(d) As impossible.

4. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?
(a) Operating with great malice.
(b) Operating in solitude.
(c) Operating with religious motivations.
(d) Operating in concert.

5. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Dorothy Roberts.
(c) Hedly Frable.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?

2. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?

3. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?

4. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?

5. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?

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