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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 question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) When did your ancestors settle in America?
(b) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(c) When did your ancestors die?
(d) What did your ancestors do for a living?

2. How does the Black body see the white body?
(a) Privileged, controlling, and dangerous.
(b) Sad.
(c) Unpredictable.
(d) Suspicious.

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

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Charles Blow.
(b) Jonathan Capeheart.
(c) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(d) Brent Staples.

5. How are police expected to act in many towns and communities, according to Menakem?
(a) Like religious leaders.
(b) Like soldiers.
(c) Like teachers.
(d) Like friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one do by healing his own trauma?

2. What is one area where the soul nerve does not connect to?

3. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?

4. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?

5. What are two characteristics of resilience?

(see the answer key)

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