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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. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Missouri.

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

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

4. Which of the following were lynchings NOT in the year 1920 in America?
(a) Celebratory events, for some involved.
(b) Legal.
(c) Widespread.
(d) Aberrations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is helpful after one experiences a stressful event, as Menakem explains the process in Chapter 13?

2. What kind of routine does Menakem offer advice to help a person run in Chapter 11?

3. What is one thing that can be traumatizing to the police body, according to the re-memberings section in Chapter 8?

4. What kind of energy might a person feel in the early stages of healing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a settled body matter so much, according to Menakem?

2. What role does the soul nerve play in the body, according to Menakem?

3. Why does Bryan, Menakem's friend, call him so shaken in Chapter 8?

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

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

6. What does Menakem say about lynchings in general in Chapter 12 that might surprise many Americans?

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

8. What does confronting white-skin privilege involve, according to Menakem?

9. What does active listening involve?

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

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