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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. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Mississippi.

2. What does one do by healing his own trauma?
(a) Help heal the world.
(b) Help fight climate change.
(c) Help decrease inequality.
(d) Help perpetuate oppression.

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) Dark Mirror.
(b) Man in the Mirror Way.
(c) A Distant Mirror.
(d) Underground Mirror.

4. When did Martin Luther King Jr. say an individual has really been able to start living at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) When he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
(b) When he can love someone who does not look like him.
(c) When he can feel free in a jail cell.
(d) When he can advocate for his fellow neighbor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Menakem's brother do for a living?

2. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

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

4. What is life full of, according to Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah's quote in Chapter 12?

5. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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