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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one main message behind micro-aggressions?

2. What did the initial invention of race require, according to Menakem?

3. Who killed Tamir Rice?

4. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?

5. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is one of the many paradoxes of race that Menakem mentions in Chapter 5?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the training sessions Menakem led for the Minneapolis Police Department focused on, and how did he carry them out? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Menakem argue that the trauma white Europeans experienced centuries ago is related to white-body supremacy in America today? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does the news and the manner of Tamir Rice's death affect Menakem personally and professionally? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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