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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 many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.
2. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Rebel against them.
(b) Re-write them.
(c) Respect them.
(d) Internalize them.
3. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?
(a) A financial incentive.
(b) A sin.
(c) An inevitability.
(d) A construct.
4. What is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?
(a) How much cleaner does a body look than mine?
(b) How closely does a body match mine?
(c) How ill does this body look compared to mine?
(d) How does this body smell compared to mine?
5. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) A myth.
(b) A tool of the ruling class.
(c) An obstacle.
(d) A hope.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?
2. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
3. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
4. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?
5. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do scientists think about how stress in a pregnant woman can affect her unborn child?
2. How does Menakem react to the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice?
3. What are the two kinds of pain, according to Menakem?
4. Why will some people never be able to see Black bodies as "unarmed," according to Menakem?
5. What do healing and refusing to heal have in common, according to Menakem?
6. What historical factor does Menakem argue white-body supremacy in America is linked to?
7. What happens when two or more unfamiliar bodies first encounter one another, according to Menakem?
8. What did the English bring with them to America, according to Menakem in Chapter 4?
9. What do people often think of when they hear the phrase white supremacy, and what is the reality of the situation, according to Menakem?
10. What are micro-aggressions?
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