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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 177 - 233).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menakem's brother tell him so many cops are told repeatedly that leads to tragic outcomes?
(a) You need to protect your fellow officers above all else.
(b) Hesitation will get an officer killed.
(c) Find a way to survive at all costs.
(d) Assume most people are armed and dangerous.

2. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?
(a) In our bodies as well as our brains.
(b) In the air.
(c) In the graveyards.
(d) In the textbooks.

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

4. Healing does not occur in which of the following?
(a) A vacuum.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) A light room.

5. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) The History of Malcolm X.
(b) Between the World and Me.
(c) Wander and Wonder.
(d) Finally Here.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Menakem say it is not the job of Black people to do for white people in Chapter 15?

2. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?

3. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?

4. What is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?

5. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?

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