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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 years defined the New-Crow Era?
(a) 1700 through 1895.
(b) 1900 through 1965.
(c) 1865 through 1955.
(d) 1966 through the present.

2. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves discomfort.
(b) It involves music.
(c) It involves paying for therapy.
(d) It involves writing letters.

3. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(b) The size of people's feet.
(c) The color of people's eyes.
(d) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.

4. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?
(a) Star Wars.
(b) Django Unchained.
(c) The Invisibles.
(d) 12 Years a Slave.

5. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Haughtiness.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Resilience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Menakem caution the reader about in regards to the physical activities he outlines?

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

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?

5. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the English bring with them to America, according to Menakem in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 5, what does Menakem's mother sometimes say about skin color that aggravates him?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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