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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?
(a) Black people's very bodies are viewed as weapons.
(b) Voting is more important to Black people as owning land.
(c) Black people are often thought of as being invulnerable to pain.
(d) This country does not like Black people very much.

2. 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.

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

4. How does the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) As too weak.
(b) As neutral.
(c) As dangerous and disruptive.
(d) As too strong.

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

6. What years defined the Middle Ages?
(a) Roughly 1600 through 1800.
(b) Roughly 1900 through 2000.
(c) Roughly 200 through 400.
(d) Roughly 500 through 1500.

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

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

9. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?
(a) It is defined by his words, not his actions.
(b) It is defined by white man's definitions.
(c) It is defined by where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
(d) It is defined by his access to education and wealth.

10. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Hedly Jackson.
(c) Keith Ellison.
(d) Toni Morrison.

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

12. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?
(a) Star Wars.
(b) 12 Years a Slave.
(c) The Invisibles.
(d) Django Unchained.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Menakem's own son?

3. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?

4. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

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

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