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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 of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?
(a) It was mandated by law.
(b) It was advanced by the Puritans.
(c) It was spectator sport.
(d) It was a trademark of the royal family.

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

3. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Britain.

4. What does Bomani Jones's quote beginning Chapter 6 say?
(a) Black people are often thought of as being invulnerable to pain.
(b) Voting is more important to Black people as owning land.
(c) Black people's very bodies are viewed as weapons.
(d) This country does not like Black people very much.

5. According to James Baldwin, when is the power of the white world threatened?
(a) When Black people gain better access to education.
(b) When a white person accepts that Black people are equal.
(c) When Black people gain more wealth.
(d) When a Black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

2. How does Menakem end each chapter?

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

4. How does the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?

5. How does Menakem describe many of the English who fled to America in the 1600s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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