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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Menakem suggest as an action to help a white body feel more settled in the presence of Black bodies?
(a) Cook some recipes from the Black southern American tradition.
(b) Take a hip hop dance class.
(c) Sing in a choir.
(d) Join a gym with a clientele of mixed ethnicities.

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

3. How does Menakem define trauma in Chapter 8?
(a) As unfinished business.
(b) As anything the body perceives as too much, too fast, or too soon.
(c) As a fight to engage in with others.
(d) As a problem that can not be solved.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does your body feel when the soul nerve is functioning well?

2. What does Menakem advocate adding to one's life in Chapter 17 to improve it?

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

4. What happens when a person heals historical and intergenerational trauma?

5. Which of the following were lynchings NOT in the year 1920 in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look at pictures of, and why, in Chapter 16?

2. What happens to Menakem's 15-year-old nephew in Chapter 8?

3. What does Menakem write might happen when a white body learns to settle and manage itself?

4. What must one first choose to do in order to stop intergenerational and historical trauma in its tracks, according to Menakem?

5. What are three things everyone working in American law enforcement need to hear, according to Menakem?

6. What is one of the hardest parts of healing trauma, according to Menakem in Chapter 12?

7. What advice does Menakem give to leaders in police departments or units at the end of Chapter 17?

8. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem say police are often tasked with in communities?

9. What does Menakem's brother, who is a police officer, tell him about his job in Chapter 17?

10. What should white people do when they hear someone use a "dodge" during a racially charged conversation, according to Menakem?

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