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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Dorothy Roberts.
(d) Hedly Frable.

2. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?
(a) Roughly 1700 through 1800.
(b) Roughly 500 through 700.
(c) Roughly 1500 through 1610.
(d) Roughly 1200 through 1400.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 defensive response whenever a white body is challenged on the subject of race and equity.
(d) A strong aversion to promoting Black people in the workplace.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

3. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?

4. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

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

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