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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 55).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often sinister.
(b) It is often intrinsic and learned.
(c) It is often hard to define.
(d) It is often underrated.

2. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?
(a) They often have heart attacks.
(b) Stress hormones are released in their bodies.
(c) They can no longer learn or keep going to school.
(d) They become overweight.

3. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A wide range of illnesses.
(b) A tendency to travel more than often.
(c) A tendency to not want to live alone.
(d) Problems having children.

4. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) A flower.
(b) A baby animal.
(c) A sunset.
(d) An ancestor.

5. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As unifying.
(b) As binary.
(c) As political.
(d) As impossible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?

2. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

3. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?

4. How does Menakem end each chapter?

5. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?

(see the answer key)

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