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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Keith Ellison.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Hedly Jackson.

2. 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 lost a job.
(c) Recalling an incident in which they have asked a Black body to comfort or protect them.
(d) Recalling an incident in which they uneccesarily called the police.

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

4. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) An ancestor.
(b) A baby animal.
(c) A sunset.
(d) A flower.

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

6. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?
(a) France.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) Britain.

7. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?
(a) Winston Hughes.
(b) Biddy Jane.
(c) Giles Gorey.
(d) Biddy Rowan.

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

9. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Micro-aggressions.
(b) Undermining aggressions
(c) Overt-aggressions.
(d) Hyper-aggressions.

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

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

12. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Torture and Empathy.
(b) Sympathy and Elegance.
(c) Whiteness and Blackness.
(d) Right and wrong.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?

3. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?

5. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?

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