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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 word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Overt-aggressions.
(b) Undermining aggressions
(c) Hyper-aggressions.
(d) Micro-aggressions.

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

3. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?
(a) Hurtful.
(b) Often helped by therapy.
(c) Difficult to deal with and process.
(d) Destiny.

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?
(a) Black people's very bodies are viewed as weapons.
(b) Black people are often thought of as being invulnerable to pain.
(c) Voting is more important to Black people as owning land.
(d) This country does not like Black people very much.

5. What are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often underrated.
(b) It is often hard to define.
(c) It is often intrinsic and learned.
(d) It is often sinister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?

3. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?

4. What years defined the Middle Ages?

5. At the very end of Chapter 7, what does Menakem remind white people that whiteness does NOT equal?

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