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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 police officers need to retrain their bodies to do, according to Menakem in Chapter 9?
(a) Eat well.
(b) Feel safe in the presence of Black bodies.
(c) Sleep better.
(d) Run well.

2. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Micro-aggressions.
(b) Undermining aggressions
(c) Hyper-aggressions.
(d) Overt-aggressions.

3. What is most police training, according to Menakem?
(a) Tactical.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Non-verbal.
(d) Psychological.

4. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?
(a) Difficult to deal with and process.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Often helped by therapy.
(d) Hurtful.

5. What do white women in America suffer from high rates of?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Bowel disease.
(c) Migranes.
(d) Stroke.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?

3. Why do the police tackle Menakem's nephew in Chapter 8?

4. When should white people challenge others in conversations that are racially charged?

5. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?

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