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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 55).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Dorothy Roberts.
(c) Hedly Frable.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

2. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves paying for therapy.
(b) It involves music.
(c) It involves writing letters.
(d) It involves discomfort.

3. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) An ancestor.
(b) A flower.
(c) A baby animal.
(d) A sunset.

4. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Hedly Jackson.
(d) Keith Ellison.

5. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Leave their bodies.
(b) Reclaim their bodies.
(c) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(d) Get their bodies fitter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are two characteristics of resilience?

3. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?

4. Where does trauma often spread?

5. What do therapists working with couples often discover?

(see the answer key)

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