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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menakem say police officers do not have to choose between?
(a) Being happy and being a good cop.
(b) Being fit and being a good cop.
(c) Being a loyal cop who enforces white-body supremacy and being a traitor.
(d) Having a family and being a good cop.

2. What kind of routine does Menakem offer advice to help a person run in Chapter 11?
(a) A growth routine.
(b) A thinking routine.
(c) A teaching routine.
(d) A healing routine.

3. 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 feel they are better.
(b) Make sure white people are always wealthier than blacks.
(c) Minimize the impact of racism in conversation.
(d) Soothe white people's lizard-brain fears of Black bodies.

4. Where does Menakem's brother live?
(a) Monterey.
(b) Austin.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Dallas.

5. What happens when a person heals historical and intergenerational trauma?
(a) That person finds a way to write a new book.
(b) That person may achieve financial freedom.
(c) That person heals the people who came before her.
(d) That person may now be able to achieve all her dreams.

6. What is one area where the soul nerve does not connect to?
(a) The feet.
(b) The fingers.
(c) The hair.
(d) The thinking brain.

7. Which of the following is settling a body explicitly NOT the same thing as, according to Menakem?
(a) Engaging with community.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Healing.
(d) Staying fit.

8. Which of the following are body practices to do with those people we know and trust?
(a) Go to a nightclub.
(b) Take a silent walk together and keep footsteps in sync.
(c) Participate in a fundraiser.
(d) Go swimming.

9. What is another name for code words that are racially related?
(a) Epithets.
(b) Dog whistles.
(c) Slurs.
(d) Euphemisms.

10. Where did Menakem lead a series of training sessions while he was writing this book?
(a) The Museum Organization of America.
(b) The Library of Congress.
(c) The Fraternal Order Association.
(d) Minneapolis Police Department.

11. What should leaders in law enforcement do two to three times a year for their staff, according to Menakem?
(a) Bring in clowns.
(b) Bring in singers.
(c) Bring in puppies.
(d) Bring in healers.

12. What is the truth about white bodies, according to Menakem in Chapter 15?
(a) They are weak.
(b) They are newer than Black bodies.
(c) They are less likely than Black bodies to become sunburned.
(d) They are resilient.

13. What is helpful after one experiences a stressful event, as Menakem explains the process in Chapter 13?
(a) Cooking a meal.
(b) Talking to someone who is an active listener.
(c) Buying things.
(d) Playing golf.

14. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?
(a) Low blood sugar.
(b) Having been hypnotized.
(c) Having been taught that Black people are inferior.
(d) Lizard-brain panic.

15. What is one thing that can be traumatizing to the police body, according to the re-memberings section in Chapter 8?
(a) Repeated images of guns.
(b) Loud noises.
(c) Fires.
(d) Chronic stress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the largest part of the soul nerve travel?

2. What does writer Nikki Giovanni say happens when you do not understand yourself in her quote in Chapter 9?

3. Why did Officer Betty Shelby say she shot Terence Crutcher?

4. What does Menakem's brother tell him so many cops are told repeatedly that leads to tragic outcomes?

5. What creature does Menakem use in an example of a hypothetical brutal act in the beginning of Chapter 16?

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