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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?
(a) 1865 through 1955.
(b) 1966 through the present.
(c) 1900 through 1965.
(d) 1700 through 1895.

6. What is the name of Menakem's own son?
(a) Tamir.
(b) Tariq.
(c) Trayvon.
(d) Tezara.

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

8. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A tendency to not want to live alone.
(b) Problems having children.
(c) A tendency to travel more than often.
(d) A wide range of illnesses.

9. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Respect them.
(b) Internalize them.
(c) Rebel against them.
(d) Re-write them.

10. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?
(a) It is dying.
(b) It is undergoing a large migration.
(c) It is tearing itself apart.
(d) It is flourishing.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Black body see the white body?

2. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?

3. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

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

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

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