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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 177 - 233).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?
(a) The person receiving them is of a lower class than the person asserting them.
(b) The person asserting them is not important.
(c) The person receiving them is not important.
(d) The person receiving them is of a higher class than the person asserting them.

2. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?
(a) The massacre at Mai Lai.
(b) Bloody Sunday.
(c) The Duluth lynchings.
(d) The Tulsa Race Massacre.

3. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?
(a) It was spectator sport.
(b) It was mandated by law.
(c) It was a trademark of the royal family.
(d) It was advanced by the Puritans.

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

5. Why does Menakem write that people often visit him for therapy?
(a) To make jokes with him.
(b) To look at his books.
(c) To see his fish tank.
(d) To be with his settled, regulated nervous system.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who killed Tamir Rice?

3. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?

4. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?

5. What would Menakem's grandmother frequently do to try to comfort herself?

(see the answer key)

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