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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) A hope.
(b) A tool of the ruling class.
(c) A myth.
(d) An obstacle.

2. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Haughtiness.

3. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?
(a) A strong aversion to repealing laws that keep Black people at a disadvantage.
(b) A strong aversion to eating food cooked by Black people.
(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.

4. What years defined the Middle Ages?
(a) Roughly 500 through 1500.
(b) Roughly 200 through 400.
(c) Roughly 1600 through 1800.
(d) Roughly 1900 through 2000.

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

6. 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.

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

8. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?
(a) Operating with great malice.
(b) Operating in concert.
(c) Operating with religious motivations.
(d) Operating in solitude.

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

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

11. 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 the ruling class.
(d) As victims of trauma themselves.

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

13. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?
(a) Helping someone learn to cook.
(b) Setting out meditative practices.
(c) Educating someone on what trauma actually is.
(d) Finding a partner.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

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

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

4. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?

5. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?

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