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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 hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies fitter.
(b) Reclaim their bodies.
(c) Leave their bodies.
(d) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.

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

3. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(b) The size of people's feet.
(c) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.
(d) The color of people's eyes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?

2. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?

3. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

4. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?

5. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens regarding the transfer of trauma in Chapter 3, according to Menakem?

2. What did the English bring with them to America, according to Menakem in Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 5, what does Menakem's mother sometimes say about skin color that aggravates him?

4. When does Menakem say our concepts of whiteness, Blackness, and race were invented?

5. How did white Europeans treat each other centuries ago?

6. What are micro-aggressions?

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

8. What are the two kinds of pain, according to Menakem?

9. What is one of the many paradoxes of race that Menakem mentions in Chapter 5?

10. How does Menakem define the Jim Crow era?

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