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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 do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Internalize them.
(b) Rebel against them.
(c) Re-write them.
(d) Respect them.

2. Why did the police officer who killed Philando Castile say he felt in danger?
(a) The officer was tired.
(b) The officer was feeling sick.
(c) The officer was angry from something unrelated that had happened that day.
(d) Castile had a gun in the car.

3. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?
(a) By trying to tear it to pieces.
(b) By singing.
(c) By helping law enforcement officials.
(d) By engaging in religious activities.

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

5. Where did Menakem lead a series of training sessions while he was writing this book?
(a) Minneapolis Police Department.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Museum Organization of America.
(d) The Fraternal Order Association.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Menakem define trauma in Chapter 8?

2. When did Martin Luther King Jr. say an individual has really been able to start living at the beginning of Chapter 14?

3. Why did Officer Betty Shelby say she shot Terence Crutcher?

4. What does Menakem say in Chapter 17 that police officers do NOT have a free pass to do?

5. What is another name for code words that are racially related?

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