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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. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?
(a) As religious extremists.
(b) As the middle class.
(c) As the ruling class.
(d) As victims of trauma themselves.

2. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?
(a) 1600 through 1850.
(b) 1700 through 1850.
(c) 1820 through 1925.
(d) 1877 through 1965.

3. Where does trauma often spread?
(a) Through bodies.
(b) Through housing.
(c) Through trees.
(d) Through flowers.

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Charles Blow.
(b) Brent Staples.
(c) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(d) Jonathan Capeheart.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?

4. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

5. How does Menakem end each chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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