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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 unfinished business.
(b) As a fight to engage in with others.
(c) As a problem that can not be solved.
(d) As anything the body perceives as too much, too fast, or too soon.

2. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(b) Reclaim their bodies.
(c) Leave their bodies.
(d) Get their bodies fitter.

3. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?
(a) When a Black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
(b) When Black people gain better access to education.
(c) When Black people gain more wealth.
(d) When a white person accepts that Black people are equal.

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

5. What does vicarious trauma involve?
(a) Watching a movie about trauma.
(b) Reading about trauma.
(c) Watching someone else be traumatized.
(d) Thinking about trauma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the body does most human behavior involve, according to Menakem?

2. Why is white-body supremacy so intractable?

3. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?

4. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

5. Which of the following are activities Menakem suggests to get the soul nerve functioning the way it should?

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