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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Menakem caution the reader about in regards to the physical activities he outlines?
(a) To do them outside.
(b) Not to get frustrated if they do not work.
(c) To do at least ten per day.
(d) Not to skip them.

3. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?
(a) They can no longer learn or keep going to school.
(b) They often have heart attacks.
(c) Stress hormones are released in their bodies.
(d) They become overweight.

4. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Malcolm Gladwell.
(d) Rosie Henderson.

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

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

7. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?
(a) Finding a partner.
(b) Helping someone learn to cook.
(c) Educating someone on what trauma actually is.
(d) Setting out meditative practices.

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

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

11. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) A sunset.
(b) An ancestor.
(c) A baby animal.
(d) A flower.

12. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Assimilate with Black ones.
(b) Separate from Black ones.
(c) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.
(d) Accept Black ones.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

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

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

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

5. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?

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