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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 the trees.
(b) Through church teachings.
(c) Through food.
(d) Through genes.

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

3. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) A hope.
(b) A tool of the ruling class.
(c) An obstacle.
(d) A myth.

4. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A tendency to not want to live alone.
(b) A wide range of illnesses.
(c) Problems having children.
(d) A tendency to travel more than often.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

2. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?

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

4. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?

5. What does Menakem say his book presents some profound opportunities for?

(see the answer key)

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