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

2. What are few skills more essential than in Chapter 11, according to Menakem?
(a) Staying fit.
(b) Learning to settle your body.
(c) Finding food.
(d) Writing.

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

4. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recalling an incident in which they have asked a Black body to comfort or protect them.
(b) Recalling an incident in which they lost a job.
(c) Recalling an incident in which they uneccesarily called the police.
(d) Recalling an incident in which they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.

5. 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 helping law enforcement officials.
(c) By engaging in religious activities.
(d) By singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?

2. What years defined the Middle Ages?

3. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?

4. Which of the following will NOT help the body discharge excess energy, according to Menakem?

5. What kind of routine does Menakem offer advice to help a person run in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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