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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 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 Wernicke's Area.
(d) Our homonculus.

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

3. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Hedly Frable.
(c) Dorothy Roberts.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

4. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Separate from Black ones.
(b) Assimilate with Black ones.
(c) Accept Black ones.
(d) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.

5. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) Larger muscles.
(c) Thick emotional skin in many senses.
(d) Good eyesight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?

3. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?

5. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

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