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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. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?
2. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?
3. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
4. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?
5. What is the name of Menakem's own son?
Short Essay Questions
1. As a therapist, what has Menakem discovered about the first step in helping someone heal from trauma?
2. What benefit does one healing one's individual trauma have?
3. What does Menakem include at the end of each chapter and why?
4. What happens regarding the transfer of trauma in Chapter 3, according to Menakem?
5. What do people often think of when they hear the phrase white supremacy, and what is the reality of the situation, according to Menakem?
6. What does an embedded trauma response in the body often manifest as, according to Menakem?
7. What is one of the many paradoxes of race that Menakem mentions in Chapter 5?
8. When does Menakem say our concepts of whiteness, Blackness, and race were invented?
9. What do scientists think about how stress in a pregnant woman can affect her unborn child?
10. What does Menakem remember about his grandmother's hands?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What anecdote about his own mother, and her attitudes towards Black skin tones, does Menakem share, and what issues does he hope to highlight for the reader in so doing? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
What is the harm done to society and to the cause of racial justice by the persistence of what Menakem calls the "false fragility of the white body" (97)? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does the "soul nerve" affect people's behavior, especially in racially charged or sensitive situations, according to Menakem? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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