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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 is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?
(a) How much cleaner does a body look than mine?
(b) How does this body smell compared to mine?
(c) How closely does a body match mine?
(d) How ill does this body look compared to mine?

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

3. Who killed Tamir Rice?
(a) Officer Timothy Loehmann.
(b) Officer Henry Reese.
(c) Officer James Mendelay.
(d) Officer Mayton Blane.

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?
(a) This country does not like Black people very much.
(b) Black people's very bodies are viewed as weapons.
(c) Black people are often thought of as being invulnerable to pain.
(d) Voting is more important to Black people as owning land.

5. What does vicarious trauma involve?
(a) Thinking about trauma.
(b) Watching someone else be traumatized.
(c) Reading about trauma.
(d) Watching a movie about trauma.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

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

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

5. What years defined the Middle Ages?

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