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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. Why did the police officer who killed Philando Castile say he felt in danger?
(a) The officer was tired.
(b) The officer was feeling sick.
(c) The officer was angry from something unrelated that had happened that day.
(d) Castile had a gun in the car.

2. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) What did your ancestors do for a living?
(b) When did your ancestors settle in America?
(c) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(d) When did your ancestors die?

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

4. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?
(a) The person receiving them is of a higher class than the person asserting them.
(b) The person receiving them is not important.
(c) The person receiving them is of a lower class than the person asserting them.
(d) The person asserting them is not important.

5. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Settling your body.
(b) Contracting your muscles.
(c) Learning to check your eyesight.
(d) Learning to sing correctly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creature does Menakem use in an example of a hypothetical brutal act in the beginning of Chapter 16?

2. What kind of torture from the Middle Ages does Menakem evoke in Chapter 16?

3. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

4. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?

5. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

(see the answer key)

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