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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 few skills more essential than in Chapter 11, according to Menakem?
(a) Learning to settle your body.
(b) Writing.
(c) Finding food.
(d) Staying fit.

2. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.
(b) The size of people's feet.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.

3. How does your body feel when the soul nerve is functioning well?
(a) Relaxed, open and settled.
(b) Sunburned.
(c) Constricted.
(d) Heavy.

4. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves writing letters.
(b) It involves discomfort.
(c) It involves music.
(d) It involves paying for therapy.

5. What does Menakem say it is not the job of Black people to do for white people in Chapter 15?
(a) Make sure white people are always wealthier than blacks.
(b) Minimize the impact of racism in conversation.
(c) Make sure white people feel they are better.
(d) Soothe white people's lizard-brain fears of Black bodies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fifth step of moving through clean pain concered with?

2. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?

3. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?

4. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?

5. Why does Menakem write that people often visit him for therapy?

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