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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) A Distant Mirror.
(b) Dark Mirror.
(c) Man in the Mirror Way.
(d) Underground Mirror.

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?
(a) A strong aversion to eating food cooked by Black people.
(b) A strong aversion to repealing laws that keep Black people at a disadvantage.
(c) A strong aversion to promoting Black people in the workplace.
(d) A strong defensive response whenever a white body is challenged on the subject of race and equity.

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

14. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Dorothy Roberts.
(b) Hedly Frable.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

2. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

3. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?

4. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?

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

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