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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?
(a) The Black body is built to perform sports better than the white body.
(b) The Black body is worth more than the white body.
(c) The Black body is built to swim faster than the white body.
(d) The Black body is dangerous and threatening.

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

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

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

9. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Brent Staples.
(b) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(c) Charles Blow.
(d) Jonathan Capeheart.

10. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?
(a) When Black people gain more wealth.
(b) When a Black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
(c) When Black people gain better access to education.
(d) When a white person accepts that Black people are equal.

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

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

13. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) What did your ancestors do for a living?
(b) When did your ancestors settle in America?
(c) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(d) When did your ancestors die?

14. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Separate from Black ones.
(b) Accept Black ones.
(c) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.
(d) Assimilate with Black ones.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?

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

3. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?

4. Where does trauma often spread?

5. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?

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