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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 111 - 175).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Menakem define trauma in Chapter 8?
(a) As a fight to engage in with others.
(b) As anything the body perceives as too much, too fast, or too soon.
(c) As a problem that can not be solved.
(d) As unfinished business.

2. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Finally Here.
(b) The History of Malcolm X.
(c) Wander and Wonder.
(d) Between the World and Me.

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

4. What do police officers need to retrain their bodies to do, according to Menakem in Chapter 9?
(a) Sleep better.
(b) Feel safe in the presence of Black bodies.
(c) Eat well.
(d) Run well.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second step of moving through clean pain focused on?

2. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?

3. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?

4. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?

5. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?

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