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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 57 - 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through church teachings.
(b) Through the trees.
(c) Through genes.
(d) Through food.

2. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?
(a) Giles Gorey.
(b) Biddy Rowan.
(c) Winston Hughes.
(d) Biddy Jane.

3. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?
(a) It is defined by his access to education and wealth.
(b) It is defined by where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
(c) It is defined by white man's definitions.
(d) It is defined by his words, not his actions.

4. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As binary.
(b) As unifying.
(c) As political.
(d) As impossible.

5. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.
(b) The color of people's eyes.
(c) The size of people's feet.
(d) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

4. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?

5. What do therapists working with couples often discover?

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