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

2. Who shot Philando Castile?
(a) Officer Henley Bowen.
(b) Officer John Riley.
(c) Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
(d) Officer Heletia Brown.

3. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

4. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?
(a) Good eyesight.
(b) Thick emotional skin in many senses.
(c) Larger muscles.
(d) High blood pressure.

5. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Finally Here.
(b) Between the World and Me.
(c) The History of Malcolm X.
(d) Wander and Wonder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

3. Healing does not occur in which of the following?

4. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?

5. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

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