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

2. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?
(a) 1700 through 1895.
(b) 1966 through the present.
(c) 1865 through 1955.
(d) 1900 through 1965.

3. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?
(a) They often have heart attacks.
(b) They can no longer learn or keep going to school.
(c) Stress hormones are released in their bodies.
(d) They become overweight.

4. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Settling your body.
(b) Learning to sing correctly.
(c) Learning to check your eyesight.
(d) Contracting your muscles.

5. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?
(a) It is flourishing.
(b) It is dying.
(c) It is undergoing a large migration.
(d) It is tearing itself apart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does vicarious trauma involve?

2. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

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

4. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

5. What is the name of Menakem's own son?

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