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

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

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

4. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is very easy to learn.
(b) It is a flow.
(c) It is an attribute.
(d) It is not easy to learn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

2. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?

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

4. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?

5. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?

(see the answer key)

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