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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. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?
(a) It was a trademark of the royal family.
(b) It was spectator sport.
(c) It was advanced by the Puritans.
(d) It was mandated by law.

2. 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 height of Black people in comparison to white people.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The size of people's feet.

3. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?
(a) They are the toughest part of his grandmother's body.
(b) They helped his grandmother swim well.
(c) They are also callused from picking cotton.
(d) They have been broken many times.

4. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is not easy to learn.
(b) It is very easy to learn.
(c) It is a flow.
(d) It is an attribute.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Menakem's own son?

2. How does the Black body see the white body?

3. In Chapter 2, how does Menakem say the white body sees itself?

4. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Menakem react to the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice?

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

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

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

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

6. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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

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