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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 does one do by healing his own trauma?
(a) Help heal the world.
(b) Help perpetuate oppression.
(c) Help decrease inequality.
(d) Help fight climate change.

2. What is one area where the soul nerve does not connect to?
(a) The hair.
(b) The fingers.
(c) The thinking brain.
(d) The feet.

3. Which of the following are activities Menakem suggests to get the soul nerve functioning the way it should?
(a) Playing a sport.
(b) Belly breathing, buzzing, and/or slow rocking.
(c) Drinking alcohol.
(d) Finding a cat or dog to adopt.

4. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through genes.
(b) Through church teachings.
(c) Through food.
(d) Through the trees.

5. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?
(a) As the ruling class.
(b) As religious extremists.
(c) As the middle class.
(d) As victims of trauma themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?

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

3. Who drove his motorcycle at high speed and was then pulled over and shot by a police officer in 2016?

4. What years defined the Middle Ages?

5. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?

(see the answer key)

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