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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 part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?

2. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are micro-aggressions?

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

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

4. How does Menakem define the Jim Crow era?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Menakem's nephew Xavier's encounter with the police in Chapter 8 affect his and his family's perceptions of police treatment of Black bodies? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Menakem describe microaggressions, and how does experiencing microaggressions affect many people of color in America? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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