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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. Where does trauma often spread?
(a) Through trees.
(b) Through bodies.
(c) Through housing.
(d) Through flowers.

2. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?
(a) Having been taught that Black people are inferior.
(b) Having been hypnotized.
(c) Low blood sugar.
(d) Lizard-brain panic.

3. What are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often hard to define.
(b) It is often underrated.
(c) It is often sinister.
(d) It is often intrinsic and learned.

4. What do white women in America suffer from high rates of?
(a) Bowel disease.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Migranes.
(d) Cancer.

5. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Haughtiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

3. Why does Menakem say that Officer Soppeland shot a motorcyclist in Chapter 8?

4. What did Officer Soppeland do immediately after shooting Matthew Hovland-Knase?

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

(see the answer key)

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