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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 did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?
(a) It is defined by his access to education and wealth.
(b) It is defined by where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
(c) It is defined by his words, not his actions.
(d) It is defined by white man's definitions.

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

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

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?
(a) Voting is more important to Black people as owning land.
(b) Black people's very bodies are viewed as weapons.
(c) Black people are often thought of as being invulnerable to pain.
(d) This country does not like Black people very much.

5. What does one do by healing his own trauma?
(a) Help heal the world.
(b) Help perpetuate oppression.
(c) Help fight climate change.
(d) Help decrease inequality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does vicarious trauma involve?

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

4. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?

5. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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