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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. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?
(a) Biddy Rowan.
(b) Giles Gorey.
(c) Winston Hughes.
(d) Biddy Jane.

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

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

4. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) Man in the Mirror Way.
(b) A Distant Mirror.
(c) Dark Mirror.
(d) Underground Mirror.

5. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?
(a) 1600 through 1850.
(b) 1619 through 1865.
(c) 1750 through 1850.
(d) 1760 through 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

2. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?

3. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?

4. At the very end of Chapter 7, what does Menakem remind white people that whiteness does NOT equal?

5. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What benefit does one healing one's individual trauma have?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when two or more unfamiliar bodies first encounter one another, according to Menakem?

10. What are micro-aggressions?

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