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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 a trademark of the royal family.
(d) It was spectator sport.

3. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?
(a) As victims of trauma themselves.
(b) As religious extremists.
(c) As the ruling class.
(d) As the middle class.

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

5. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?
(a) They are also callused from picking cotton.
(b) They have been broken many times.
(c) They helped his grandmother swim well.
(d) They are the toughest part of his grandmother's body.

6. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through church teachings.
(b) Through food.
(c) Through genes.
(d) Through the trees.

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

8. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?
(a) Laquan McDonald's.
(b) Michael Brown's.
(c) Tamir Rice's.
(d) Tariq James's.

9. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?
(a) 1600 through 1850.
(b) 1877 through 1965.
(c) 1700 through 1850.
(d) 1820 through 1925.

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

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

12. 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 skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The size of people's feet.

13. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?
(a) The person receiving them is not important.
(b) The person receiving them is of a higher class than the person asserting them.
(c) The person asserting them is not important.
(d) The person receiving them is of a lower class than the person asserting them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

2. What does vicarious trauma involve?

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

4. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

5. What is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?

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