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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 sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
(a) Nothing - dirty pain is no different from clean pain.
(b) He may turn to religion.
(c) He may try to "push" his trauma through another body.
(d) He may try to overeat.

2. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) One partner has spent time in jail.
(b) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.
(c) One partner has an eating disorder.
(d) One partner has unhealed trauma.

3. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?
(a) 1760 through 1920.
(b) 1619 through 1865.
(c) 1600 through 1850.
(d) 1750 through 1850.

4. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) An obstacle.
(b) A tool of the ruling class.
(c) A hope.
(d) A myth.

5. How does the Black body see the white body?
(a) Unpredictable.
(b) Sad.
(c) Privileged, controlling, and dangerous.
(d) Suspicious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

2. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

3. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?

4. Who is Menakem's newphew that he mentions in Chapter 8?

5. Where does trauma often spread?

(see the answer key)

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