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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?
(a) How ill does this body look compared to mine?
(b) How does this body smell compared to mine?
(c) How closely does a body match mine?
(d) How much cleaner does a body look than mine?

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

3. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?
(a) Good eyesight.
(b) High blood pressure.
(c) Thick emotional skin in many senses.
(d) Larger muscles.

4. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?
(a) Roughly 1500 through 1610.
(b) Roughly 1700 through 1800.
(c) Roughly 1200 through 1400.
(d) Roughly 500 through 700.

5. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Haughtiness.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Resilience.

6. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?
(a) It is tearing itself apart.
(b) It is dying.
(c) It is undergoing a large migration.
(d) It is flourishing.

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

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

9. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) When did your ancestors settle in America?
(b) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(c) When did your ancestors die?
(d) What did your ancestors do for a living?

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

11. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?
(a) Operating in concert.
(b) Operating with religious motivations.
(c) Operating with great malice.
(d) Operating in solitude.

12. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recall an incident when they first thought a white body might want comfort or protection from them.
(b) Recall an incident when they felt most comfortable at work.
(c) Recall an incident when they lost a job.
(d) Recall an incident when they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.

13. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?
(a) Fabrizio Charen.
(b) Nancy Van Dyken.
(c) Helen Steller.
(d) Vin Marlowe.

14. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?
(a) Hurtful.
(b) Often helped by therapy.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Difficult to deal with and process.

15. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Britain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?

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

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

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

5. Who killed Tamir Rice?

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