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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) An obstacle.
(b) A hope.
(c) A tool of the ruling class.
(d) A myth.

2. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Learning to sing correctly.
(b) Contracting your muscles.
(c) Settling your body.
(d) Learning to check your eyesight.

3. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
(a) He may turn to religion.
(b) Nothing - dirty pain is no different from clean pain.
(c) He may try to overeat.
(d) He may try to "push" his trauma through another body.

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

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

6. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(b) Get their bodies fitter.
(c) Leave their bodies.
(d) Reclaim their bodies.

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

8. At the very end of Chapter 7, what does Menakem remind white people that whiteness does NOT equal?
(a) Fragility.
(b) Condescension.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Happiness.

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

10. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?
(a) It is defined by white man's definitions.
(b) It is defined by his words, not his actions.
(c) It is defined by his access to education and wealth.
(d) It is defined by where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

11. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?
(a) Often helped by therapy.
(b) Hurtful.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Difficult to deal with and process.

12. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The color of people's eyes.
(b) The size of people's feet.
(c) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(d) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Menakem end each chapter?

3. What does vicarious trauma involve?

4. What years defined the Middle Ages?

5. What is the name of Menakem's own son?

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