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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. At the very end of Chapter 7, what does Menakem remind white people that whiteness does NOT equal?
(a) Condescension.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fragility.
(d) Dominance.

2. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Sympathy and Elegance.
(b) Torture and Empathy.
(c) Whiteness and Blackness.
(d) Right and wrong.

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

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

5. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Hyper-aggressions.
(b) Micro-aggressions.
(c) Undermining aggressions
(d) Overt-aggressions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?

2. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?

3. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

4. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?

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

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