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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 form of white fragility does Robin DiAngelo describe in an excerpt in Chapter 7?
(a) A strong aversion to eating food cooked by Black people.
(b) A strong aversion to repealing laws that keep Black people at a disadvantage.
(c) A strong defensive response whenever a white body is challenged on the subject of race and equity.
(d) A strong aversion to promoting Black people in the workplace.

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

3. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) Problems having children.
(b) A tendency to not want to live alone.
(c) A wide range of illnesses.
(d) A tendency to travel more than often.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?

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

4. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?

5. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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

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