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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who killed Tamir Rice?
(a) Officer Timothy Loehmann.
(b) Officer James Mendelay.
(c) Officer Henry Reese.
(d) Officer Mayton Blane.

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

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Charles Blow.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Jonathan Capeheart.
(d) Brent Staples.

5. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through genes.
(b) Through food.
(c) Through the trees.
(d) Through church teachings.

6. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
(a) He may try to overeat.
(b) Nothing - dirty pain is no different from clean pain.
(c) He may turn to religion.
(d) He may try to "push" his trauma through another body.

7. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Dorothy Roberts.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Hedly Frable.
(d) Toni Morrison.

8. What does Menakem say his book presents some profound opportunities for?
(a) Healing and growth.
(b) Finality.
(c) Learning math.
(d) Transformation.

9. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) Underground Mirror.
(b) Dark Mirror.
(c) Man in the Mirror Way.
(d) A Distant Mirror.

10. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?
(a) An inevitability.
(b) A sin.
(c) A construct.
(d) A financial incentive.

11. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?
(a) Tariq James's.
(b) Laquan McDonald's.
(c) Michael Brown's.
(d) Tamir Rice's.

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

13. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Between the World and Me.
(b) Finally Here.
(c) Wander and Wonder.
(d) The History of Malcolm X.

14. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?
(a) As fragile and vulnerable.
(b) As sad.
(c) As happy.
(d) As invulnerable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?

2. How does Menakem end each chapter?

3. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

4. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?

5. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?

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