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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 237 - 309).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?
(a) Low blood sugar.
(b) Having been hypnotized.
(c) Lizard-brain panic.
(d) Having been taught that Black people are inferior.

3. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?
(a) The Duluth lynchings.
(b) Bloody Sunday.
(c) The Tulsa Race Massacre.
(d) The massacre at Mai Lai.

4. What is helpful after one experiences a stressful event, as Menakem explains the process in Chapter 13?
(a) Playing golf.
(b) Talking to someone who is an active listener.
(c) Cooking a meal.
(d) Buying things.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?

2. What did Menakem's grandmother used to whip he and his brothers with?

3. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?

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

5. Which of the following forms does the pain of white progressives sometimes take, according to Menakem?

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