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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the initial invention of race require, according to Menakem?
(a) The creation of a deep conceptual divide.
(b) Height differences.
(c) Economic inequality.
(d) Religion.

2. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
(a) Nothing - dirty pain is no different from clean pain.
(b) He may turn to religion.
(c) He may try to overeat.
(d) He may try to "push" his trauma through another body.

3. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?
(a) The Black body is worth more than the white body.
(b) The Black body is dangerous and threatening.
(c) The Black body is built to perform sports better than the white body.
(d) The Black body is built to swim faster than the white body.

4. What does vicarious trauma involve?
(a) Watching a movie about trauma.
(b) Thinking about trauma.
(c) Reading about trauma.
(d) Watching someone else be traumatized.

5. What are two characteristics of resilience?
(a) It is often sinister.
(b) It is often hard to define.
(c) It is often intrinsic and learned.
(d) It is often underrated.

6. What do therapists working with couples often discover?
(a) One partner has spent time in jail.
(b) Both partners have had physical fights in the past.
(c) One partner has an eating disorder.
(d) One partner has unhealed trauma.

7. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?
(a) Roughly 500 through 700.
(b) Roughly 1500 through 1610.
(c) Roughly 1200 through 1400.
(d) Roughly 1700 through 1800.

8. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recall an incident when they lost a job.
(b) Recall an incident when they felt most comfortable at work.
(c) Recall an incident when they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.
(d) Recall an incident when they first thought a white body might want comfort or protection from them.

9. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?
(a) Nancy Van Dyken.
(b) Helen Steller.
(c) Vin Marlowe.
(d) Fabrizio Charen.

10. Which years defined the New-Crow Era?
(a) 1966 through the present.
(b) 1700 through 1895.
(c) 1900 through 1965.
(d) 1865 through 1955.

11. What is a crucial skill in regards to the mind/body connection, according to Menakem?
(a) Learning to check your eyesight.
(b) Learning to sing correctly.
(c) Contracting your muscles.
(d) Settling your body.

12. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) A baby animal.
(b) A flower.
(c) A sunset.
(d) An ancestor.

13. What is race, according to Menakem in the start of Chapter 5?
(a) A hope.
(b) A myth.
(c) An obstacle.
(d) A tool of the ruling class.

14. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?
(a) Internalize them.
(b) Re-write them.
(c) Respect them.
(d) Rebel against them.

15. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Hedly Jackson.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Keith Ellison.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?

2. Which years defined the Jim Crow Era?

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

4. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?

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

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