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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does unhealed trauma act like?
(a) A plague.
(b) A fire.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A rock thrown into a pond.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Contracting your muscles.
(b) Settling your body.
(c) Learning to sing correctly.
(d) Learning to check your eyesight.

8. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) A non-specific hormonal response.
(b) A sleeping response.
(c) Flight, flee, or freeze.
(d) A running response.

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

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

11. Where does trauma often spread?
(a) Through flowers.
(b) Through bodies.
(c) Through trees.
(d) Through housing.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?

2. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?

3. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?

4. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?

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

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