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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. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) A non-specific hormonal response.
(b) Flight, flee, or freeze.
(c) A running response.
(d) A sleeping response.

2. What does our culture that we chose do for us more than anything, according to Menakem?
(a) Creates a sense of superiority.
(b) Creates a sense of a fresh start.
(c) Creates a sense of belonging.
(d) Creates a sense of longing.

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

4. Which of the following forms does the pain of white progressives sometimes take, according to Menakem?
(a) White suspicion.
(b) White guilt.
(c) White heartache.
(d) White flight.

5. Who shot Philando Castile?
(a) Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
(b) Officer Henley Bowen.
(c) Officer John Riley.
(d) Officer Heletia Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

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

3. How does your body feel when the soul nerve is functioning well?

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

5. What is a reprieve space?

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