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

2. How does Menakem end each chapter?
(a) With the same line about fighting oppression.
(b) With a haiku.
(c) With lyrics from a different song.
(d) With a bullet list titled Re-memberings.

3. Healing does not occur in which of the following?
(a) A light room.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) A vacuum.
(d) Darkness.

4. When has Menakem usually gotten most upset with his son Tezara?
(a) When his son has put himself in danger.
(b) When his son does not do well in school.
(c) When his son has minimized racism.
(d) When his son has been disrespectful to his parents.

5. 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 skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The size of people's feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one area where the soul nerve does not connect to?

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

3. In the end of Chapter 17, what does Menakem tell the reader s/he has the power to do, above all?

4. What does Menakem call his list of the particular steps of moving through clean pain?

5. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?

(see the answer key)

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