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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 are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often intrinsic and learned.
(b) It is often sinister.
(c) It is often hard to define.
(d) It is often underrated.

2. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?
(a) By trying to tear it to pieces.
(b) By singing.
(c) By engaging in religious activities.
(d) By helping law enforcement officials.

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

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

5. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a common first step in the mending of trauma, as Menakem explains it in Chapter 13?

2. Who killed Tamir Rice?

3. What does writer Nikki Giovanni say happens when you do not understand yourself in her quote in Chapter 9?

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

5. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?

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