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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 237 - 309).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following forms does the pain of white progressives sometimes take, according to Menakem?
(a) White suspicion.
(b) White guilt.
(c) White flight.
(d) White heartache.

2. Where does trauma often spread?
(a) Through trees.
(b) Through housing.
(c) Through flowers.
(d) Through bodies.

3. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) A running response.
(b) Flight, flee, or freeze.
(c) A sleeping response.
(d) A non-specific hormonal response.

4. What is one way for Black people to mend their own hearts, as Menakem explains it in the end of Chapter 15?
(a) To participate in activism.
(b) To write.
(c) To go back to school.
(d) To observe themselves carefully and notice when and how white-body supremacy operates inside them.

5. What is the second step of moving through clean pain focused on?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Staying in the here and now.
(c) Journaling.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of activists does Menakem say he frequently sees as part of his practice as a therapist?

2. What does unhealed trauma act like?

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

4. What does the comedian Jon Stewart say about law enforcement in the beginning of Chapter 17?

5. According to James Baldwin, what have children never failed to do regarding their elders?

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