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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 does Menakem say his book presents some profound opportunities for?
(a) Learning math.
(b) Finality.
(c) Transformation.
(d) Healing and growth.

2. What is one thing that can be traumatizing to the police body, according to the re-memberings section in Chapter 8?
(a) Fires.
(b) Repeated images of guns.
(c) Loud noises.
(d) Chronic stress.

3. What are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often underrated.
(b) It is often hard to define.
(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) Migranes.
(b) Stroke.
(c) Bowel disease.
(d) Cancer.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

3. Where does the largest part of the soul nerve travel?

4. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?

5. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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