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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menakem's brother do for a living?
(a) He is a police officer.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He is an architect.
(d) He is a lawyer.

2. What device does Menakem advise people to use to help learn to settle the body?
(a) An abacus.
(b) A container of modeling clay.
(c) A balancing bird.
(d) A fidget spinner.

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

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

5. What would Menakem's grandmother frequently do to try to comfort herself?
(a) Run.
(b) Garden.
(c) Rock her body or hum.
(d) Read.

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

7. What part of the body does most human behavior involve, according to Menakem?
(a) The soul nerve.
(b) The nose.
(c) The heart.
(d) The eyes.

8. What does Menakem say in Chapter 17 that police officers do NOT have a free pass to do?
(a) Assume someone is innocent.
(b) Harm someone.
(c) Assume someone is guilty.
(d) Fire someone.

9. Why is white-body supremacy so intractable?
(a) It was taught in schools for years.
(b) It offers a sense of belonging to white bodies.
(c) It is financially beneficial.
(d) It is seen as an intelligent way of thinking.

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

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

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

13. Who is Menakem's newphew that he mentions in Chapter 8?
(a) Ben.
(b) Xavier.
(c) Rema.
(d) Tariq.

14. Which friend of Menakem's is surprised by police mistreatment against him in Chapter 8?
(a) Ben.
(b) Bryan.
(c) Jeffery.
(d) Henry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who drove his motorcycle at high speed and was then pulled over and shot by a police officer in 2016?

2. Which of the following are activities Menakem suggests to get the soul nerve functioning the way it should?

3. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?

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

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

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