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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves music.
(b) It involves discomfort.
(c) It involves paying for therapy.
(d) It involves writing letters.

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

3. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?
(a) Our frontal cortex.
(b) The brain stem, where the soul nerve connects to the brain.
(c) Our homonculus.
(d) Our Wernicke's Area.

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

5. 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 lost a job.
(c) Recalling an incident in which they uneccesarily called the police.
(d) Recalling an incident in which they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

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

5. How does Menakem end each chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Menakem include at the end of each chapter and why?

2. When did Menakem stop "honoring" white fragility in his own life?

3. How does Menakem define the Jim Crow era?

4. Why will some people never be able to see Black bodies as "unarmed," according to Menakem?

5. What do scientists think about how stress in a pregnant woman can affect her unborn child?

6. How does "the white body" often see itself, according to Menakem?

7. What do people often think of when they hear the phrase white supremacy, and what is the reality of the situation, according to Menakem?

8. What do healing and refusing to heal have in common, according to Menakem?

9. As a therapist, what has Menakem discovered about the first step in helping someone heal from trauma?

10. What does our "lizard brain" mostly account for, according to Menakem?

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