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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recalling an incident in which they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.
(b) Recalling an incident in which they uneccesarily called the police.
(c) Recalling an incident in which they have asked a Black body to comfort or protect them.
(d) Recalling an incident in which they lost a job.

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

5. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is an attribute.
(b) It is not easy to learn.
(c) It is very easy to learn.
(d) It is a flow.

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

7. How does Menakem end each chapter?
(a) With the same line about fighting oppression.
(b) With a bullet list titled Re-memberings.
(c) With lyrics from a different song.
(d) With a haiku.

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

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

10. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Charles Blow.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Jonathan Capeheart.
(d) Brent Staples.

11. 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 check your eyesight.
(d) Learning to sing correctly.

12. How does the Black body see the white body?
(a) Unpredictable.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Sad.
(d) Privileged, controlling, and dangerous.

13. What did the initial invention of race require, according to Menakem?
(a) Economic inequality.
(b) Height differences.
(c) The creation of a deep conceptual divide.
(d) Religion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

2. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

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

4. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?

5. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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