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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 should leaders in law enforcement do two to three times a year for their staff, according to Menakem?
(a) Bring in healers.
(b) Bring in clowns.
(c) Bring in puppies.
(d) Bring in singers.

2. What is the second step of moving through clean pain focused on?
(a) Singing.
(b) Journaling.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Staying in the here and now.

3. What did the initial invention of race require, according to Menakem?
(a) Religion.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) The creation of a deep conceptual divide.
(d) Height differences.

4. How does your body feel when the soul nerve is functioning well?
(a) Sunburned.
(b) Constricted.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Relaxed, open and settled.

5. What is another name for code words that are racially related?
(a) Euphemisms.
(b) Slurs.
(c) Dog whistles.
(d) Epithets.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the practices that Menakem puts forward to the reader to help settle the body?

4. What do police officers need to retrain their bodies to do, according to Menakem in Chapter 9?

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

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