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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 57 - 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Respect them.
(b) Internalize them.
(c) Rebel against them.
(d) Re-write them.

2. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is an attribute.
(b) It is not easy to learn.
(c) It is very easy to learn.
(d) It is a flow.

3. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?
(a) 1750 through 1850.
(b) 1760 through 1920.
(c) 1600 through 1850.
(d) 1619 through 1865.

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

5. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?
(a) 3.
(b) 7.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?

2. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

3. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?

4. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?

5. How does Menakem end each chapter?

(see the answer key)

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