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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. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?
(a) The person receiving them is of a higher class than the person asserting them.
(b) The person asserting them is not important.
(c) The person receiving them is of a lower class than the person asserting them.
(d) The person receiving them is not important.

2. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?
(a) They have been broken many times.
(b) They are the toughest part of his grandmother's body.
(c) They are also callused from picking cotton.
(d) They helped his grandmother swim well.

3. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?
(a) Fabrizio Charen.
(b) Nancy Van Dyken.
(c) Vin Marlowe.
(d) Helen Steller.

4. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Re-write them.
(b) Internalize them.
(c) Rebel against them.
(d) Respect them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does unhealed trauma act like?

2. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?

3. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?

4. What do therapists working with couples often discover?

5. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?

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