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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. Who shot Philando Castile?
(a) Officer John Riley.
(b) Officer Heletia Brown.
(c) Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
(d) Officer Henley Bowen.

2. What part of the body does most human behavior involve, according to Menakem?
(a) The eyes.
(b) The nose.
(c) The soul nerve.
(d) The heart.

3. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?
(a) Our frontal cortex.
(b) The brain stem, where the soul nerve connects to the brain.
(c) Our homonculus.
(d) Our Wernicke's Area.

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

5. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A tendency to travel more than often.
(b) Problems having children.
(c) A wide range of illnesses.
(d) A tendency to not want to live alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

2. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?

3. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?

4. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?

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

(see the answer key)

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