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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 does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is very easy to learn.
(b) It is an attribute.
(c) It is not easy to learn.
(d) It is a flow.

2. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through genes.
(b) Through church teachings.
(c) Through the trees.
(d) Through food.

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

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

5. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) A non-specific hormonal response.
(b) A running response.
(c) Flight, flee, or freeze.
(d) A sleeping response.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

3. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does our "lizard brain" mostly account for, according to Menakem?

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

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

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

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