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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 177 - 233).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?
(a) Finds a way to make it to the lowest point.
(b) Finds a way to read more deeply.
(c) Helps other bodies escalate.
(d) Helps other bodies it encounters to settle as well.

2. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?
(a) Difficult to deal with and process.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Hurtful.
(d) Often helped by therapy.

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

4. Which of the following were lynchings NOT in the year 1920 in America?
(a) Aberrations.
(b) Celebratory events, for some involved.
(c) Legal.
(d) Widespread.

5. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As impossible.
(b) As political.
(c) As unifying.
(d) As binary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

2. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?

3. What does Menakem's brother do for a living?

4. Why is white-body supremacy so intractable?

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

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