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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. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Wander and Wonder.
(b) Between the World and Me.
(c) The History of Malcolm X.
(d) Finally Here.

2. Who killed Tamir Rice?
(a) Officer Mayton Blane.
(b) Officer Henry Reese.
(c) Officer Timothy Loehmann.
(d) Officer James Mendelay.

3. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.
(b) One partner has spent time in jail.
(c) One partner has an eating disorder.
(d) One partner has unhealed trauma.

4. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Contracting your muscles.
(b) Learning to check your eyesight.
(c) Settling your body.
(d) Learning to sing correctly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?

2. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?

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

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?

5. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What historical factor does Menakem argue white-body supremacy in America is linked to?

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

5. What does Menakem remember about his grandmother's hands?

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

7. What does an embedded trauma response in the body often manifest as, according to Menakem?

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

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

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

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