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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 say police officers do not have to choose between?
(a) Being a loyal cop who enforces white-body supremacy and being a traitor.
(b) Having a family and being a good cop.
(c) Being happy and being a good cop.
(d) Being fit and being a good cop.

2. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Whiteness and Blackness.
(b) Torture and Empathy.
(c) Right and wrong.
(d) Sympathy and Elegance.

3. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Overt-aggressions.
(b) Hyper-aggressions.
(c) Micro-aggressions.
(d) Undermining aggressions

4. Which friend of Menakem's is surprised by police mistreatment against him in Chapter 8?
(a) Henry.
(b) Jeffery.
(c) Ben.
(d) Bryan.

5. What are the practices that Menakem puts forward to the reader to help settle the body?
(a) Ways to better connect with a partner.
(b) Final chances.
(c) Nourishment as well as medicine.
(d) Work-arounds to prevent actually having to do the work of healing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

2. Healing does not occur in which of the following?

3. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?

4. What is never a valid excuse for murder, according to Menakem in Chapter 16?

5. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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