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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 the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) As dangerous and disruptive.
(b) As neutral.
(c) As too strong.
(d) As too weak.

2. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) One partner has an eating disorder.
(b) One partner has spent time in jail.
(c) One partner has unhealed trauma.
(d) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.

3. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Torture and Empathy.
(c) Sympathy and Elegance.
(d) Whiteness and Blackness.

4. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?
(a) Finding a partner.
(b) Setting out meditative practices.
(c) Helping someone learn to cook.
(d) Educating someone on what trauma actually is.

5. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?
(a) Malcolm Gladwell.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Rosie Henderson.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

2. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?

3. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

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

5. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 our "lizard brain" mostly account for, according to Menakem?

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

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

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

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

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

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