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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one do by healing his own trauma?
(a) Help heal the world.
(b) Help perpetuate oppression.
(c) Help decrease inequality.
(d) Help fight climate change.

2. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?
(a) The brain stem, where the soul nerve connects to the brain.
(b) Our homonculus.
(c) Our Wernicke's Area.
(d) Our frontal cortex.

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

4. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves writing letters.
(b) It involves music.
(c) It involves paying for therapy.
(d) It involves discomfort.

5. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?
(a) Biddy Rowan.
(b) Giles Gorey.
(c) Winston Hughes.
(d) Biddy Jane.

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

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

8. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As unifying.
(b) As impossible.
(c) As binary.
(d) As political.

9. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies fitter.
(b) Reclaim their bodies.
(c) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(d) Leave their bodies.

10. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) One partner has spent time in jail.
(b) One partner has an eating disorder.
(c) One partner has unhealed trauma.
(d) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.

11. How does Menakem end each chapter?
(a) With a bullet list titled Re-memberings.
(b) With the same line about fighting oppression.
(c) With a haiku.
(d) With lyrics from a different song.

12. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?
(a) In the air.
(b) In our bodies as well as our brains.
(c) In the graveyards.
(d) In the textbooks.

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

14. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.
(b) The size of people's feet.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.

15. 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 of a higher class than the person asserting them.
(d) The person receiving them is not important.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does unhealed trauma act like?

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

4. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?

5. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?

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