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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. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?
(a) A construct.
(b) A sin.
(c) An inevitability.
(d) A financial incentive.

2. What does Menakem advocate adding to one's life in Chapter 17 to improve it?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Softness.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) More cheese.

3. What kind of routine does Menakem offer advice to help a person run in Chapter 11?
(a) A teaching routine.
(b) A thinking routine.
(c) A healing routine.
(d) A growth routine.

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

5. When did Martin Luther King Jr. say an individual has really been able to start living at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) When he can love someone who does not look like him.
(b) When he can feel free in a jail cell.
(c) When he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
(d) When he can advocate for his fellow neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

2. Why does Menakem write that people often visit him for therapy?

3. What is helpful after one experiences a stressful event, as Menakem explains the process in Chapter 13?

4. Which of the following does Menakem suggest as an action to help a white body feel more settled in the presence of Black bodies?

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

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