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

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

3. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) A sleeping response.
(b) A non-specific hormonal response.
(c) A running response.
(d) Flight, flee, or freeze.

4. Who killed Tamir Rice?
(a) Officer James Mendelay.
(b) Officer Henry Reese.
(c) Officer Mayton Blane.
(d) Officer Timothy Loehmann.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?

3. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?

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

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

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