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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 vicarious trauma involve?
(a) Watching someone else be traumatized.
(b) Watching a movie about trauma.
(c) Reading about trauma.
(d) Thinking about trauma.

2. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves writing letters.
(b) It involves discomfort.
(c) It involves music.
(d) It involves paying for therapy.

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

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

5. What is the name of Menakem's own son?
(a) Tariq.
(b) Tamir.
(c) Tezara.
(d) Trayvon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

2. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?

3. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

4. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?

5. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

(see the answer key)

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