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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Sympathy and Elegance.
(c) Torture and Empathy.
(d) Whiteness and Blackness.

2. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?
(a) Brent Staples.
(b) Charles Blow.
(c) Jonathan Capeheart.
(d) Ta-Nahisi Coates.

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

4. How does the police body see Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) As neutral.
(b) As too weak.
(c) As too strong.
(d) As dangerous and disruptive.

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

6. In which book does Ta-Nahisi Coates discuss the long-standing destruction of the Black body in America?
(a) Between the World and Me.
(b) Finally Here.
(c) The History of Malcolm X.
(d) Wander and Wonder.

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

8. What exercise does Menakem suggest for white readers at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Recalling an incident in which they misinterpreted a micro-aggression.
(b) Recalling an incident in which they uneccesarily called the police.
(c) Recalling an incident in which they have asked a Black body to comfort or protect them.
(d) Recalling an incident in which they lost a job.

9. How does Menakem end each chapter?
(a) With lyrics from a different song.
(b) With the same line about fighting oppression.
(c) With a haiku.
(d) With a bullet list titled Re-memberings.

10. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Reclaim their bodies.
(b) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(c) Leave their bodies.
(d) Get their bodies fitter.

11. Which years defined the Enslavement Era?
(a) 1600 through 1850.
(b) 1619 through 1865.
(c) 1760 through 1920.
(d) 1750 through 1850.

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

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

14. 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.

15. At the very end of Chapter 7, what does Menakem remind white people that whiteness does NOT equal?
(a) Condescension.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Fragility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do oppressed people often do in regard to the trauma-based values and strategies of their oppressors?

2. Which of the following is an impervious myth created by white-body supremacy about the Black body?

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

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

5. What years defined the Middle Ages?

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