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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 do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Separate from Black ones.
(b) Assimilate with Black ones.
(c) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.
(d) Accept Black ones.

2. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?
(a) When a white person accepts that Black people are equal.
(b) When a Black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
(c) When Black people gain more wealth.
(d) When Black people gain better access to education.

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) Underground Mirror.
(b) Man in the Mirror Way.
(c) A Distant Mirror.
(d) Dark Mirror.

4. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Internalize them.
(b) Re-write them.
(c) Respect them.
(d) Rebel against them.

5. What years defined the Middle Ages?
(a) Roughly 1600 through 1800.
(b) Roughly 1900 through 2000.
(c) Roughly 500 through 1500.
(d) Roughly 200 through 400.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

2. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?

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

4. What does Menakem caution the reader about in regards to the physical activities he outlines?

5. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?

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