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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 do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Separate from Black ones.
(b) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.
(c) Assimilate with Black ones.
(d) Accept Black ones.

2. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?
(a) They are also callused from picking cotton.
(b) They helped his grandmother swim well.
(c) They are the toughest part of his grandmother's body.
(d) They have been broken many times.

3. What does unhealed trauma act like?
(a) A plague.
(b) A rock thrown into a pond.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A fire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?

2. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

3. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?

4. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?

5. What question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why will some people never be able to see Black bodies as "unarmed," according to Menakem?

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

5. What do people often think of when they hear the phrase white supremacy, and what is the reality of the situation, according to Menakem?

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

7. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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