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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 57 - 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is an attribute.
(b) It is a flow.
(c) It is very easy to learn.
(d) It is not easy to learn.

3. How does the Black body see the white body?
(a) Unpredictable.
(b) Privileged, controlling, and dangerous.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Sad.

4. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?
(a) Giles Gorey.
(b) Biddy Jane.
(c) Winston Hughes.
(d) Biddy Rowan.

5. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Keith Ellison.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Hedly Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?

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

3. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?

4. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

5. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

(see the answer key)

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