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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does your body feel when the soul nerve is functioning well?
(a) Relaxed, open and settled.
(b) Sunburned.
(c) Heavy.
(d) Constricted.

3. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?
(a) Bloody Sunday.
(b) The Tulsa Race Massacre.
(c) The massacre at Mai Lai.
(d) The Duluth lynchings.

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

5. What did Menakem's grandmother used to whip he and his brothers with?
(a) A piece of twine.
(b) A willow switch.
(c) A riding crop.
(d) A belt.

6. What kind of torture from the Middle Ages does Menakem evoke in Chapter 16?
(a) Being pulled apart on the rack.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Drawing and Quartering.
(d) Being electrocuted.

7. When should white people challenge others in conversations that are racially charged?
(a) When they hear someone say they will not ever hire a Black person to work for them.
(b) When they hear someone use the n-word.
(c) When they hear one of the five anchors.
(d) When they hear someone using a "dodge."

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

9. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?
(a) By engaging in religious activities.
(b) By trying to tear it to pieces.
(c) By singing.
(d) By helping law enforcement officials.

10. What creature does Menakem use in an example of a hypothetical brutal act in the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) A groundhog.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A bird.

11. How are police expected to act in many towns and communities, according to Menakem?
(a) Like friends.
(b) Like religious leaders.
(c) Like teachers.
(d) Like soldiers.

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

13. What do all adults need to learn how to do, according to Menakem?
(a) Soothe and anchor themselves.
(b) Read.
(c) Think critically.
(d) Be good neighbors.

14. Why did the police officer who killed Philando Castile say he felt in danger?
(a) The officer was feeling sick.
(b) Castile had a gun in the car.
(c) The officer was tired.
(d) The officer was angry from something unrelated that had happened that day.

15. What are some aspects of life that can unsettle our bodies?
(a) Singing the wrong notes in church.
(b) Eating too much.
(c) Public discourse, media, and policing.
(d) Reading a horror story.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Menakem suggest as an action to help a white body feel more settled in the presence of Black bodies?

4. What takes a huge toll on the bodies of law enforcement officials?

5. Why does Menakem say that Officer Soppeland shot a motorcyclist in Chapter 8?

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