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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 question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) When did your ancestors die?
(b) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(c) What did your ancestors do for a living?
(d) When did your ancestors settle in America?

2. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Haughtiness.

3. 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.

4. How does Menakem end each chapter?
(a) With the same line about fighting oppression.
(b) With lyrics from a different song.
(c) With a haiku.
(d) With a bullet list titled Re-memberings.

5. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?
(a) In the graveyards.
(b) In the air.
(c) In our bodies as well as our brains.
(d) In the textbooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

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

3. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?

4. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?

5. What does unhealed trauma act like?

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