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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. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Finally Here.
(b) Between the World and Me.
(c) The History of Malcolm X.
(d) Wander and Wonder.

2. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?
(a) 12 Years a Slave.
(b) Django Unchained.
(c) Star Wars.
(d) The Invisibles.

3. What does vicarious trauma involve?
(a) Watching someone else be traumatized.
(b) Thinking about trauma.
(c) Watching a movie about trauma.
(d) Reading about trauma.

4. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?
(a) Good eyesight.
(b) Larger muscles.
(c) Thick emotional skin in many senses.
(d) High blood pressure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?

2. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?

3. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

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

5. Where does trauma often spread?

(see the answer key)

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