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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 111 - 175).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) One partner has an eating disorder.
(b) One partner has spent time in jail.
(c) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.
(d) One partner has unhealed trauma.

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

3. What is one thing that can be traumatizing to the police body, according to the re-memberings section in Chapter 8?
(a) Loud noises.
(b) Chronic stress.
(c) Fires.
(d) Repeated images of guns.

4. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?
(a) A sin.
(b) A construct.
(c) An inevitability.
(d) A financial incentive.

5. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Keith Ellison.
(c) Hedly Jackson.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the largest part of the soul nerve travel?

2. What do white women in America suffer from high rates of?

3. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?

4. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?

5. What years defined the Middle Ages?

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