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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. How does Menakem define community policing?
(a) As a vocation, not a job.
(b) As a process of learning about history and then ignoring that history.
(c) As a way to use force when necessary.
(d) As a set of ongoing actions that involve making one's body a part of the community and then protecting and serving that community.

2. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies fitter.
(b) Reclaim their bodies.
(c) Leave their bodies.
(d) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.

3. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?
(a) Operating in solitude.
(b) Operating in concert.
(c) Operating with great malice.
(d) Operating with religious motivations.

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

5. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?
(a) Michael Brown's.
(b) Tamir Rice's.
(c) Laquan McDonald's.
(d) Tariq James's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of torture from the Middle Ages does Menakem evoke in Chapter 16?

2. What does Menakem call his list of the particular steps of moving through clean pain?

3. Which of the following is settling a body explicitly NOT the same thing as, according to Menakem?

4. What is one area where the soul nerve does not connect to?

5. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?

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