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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?
(a) Hedly Frable.
(b) Dorothy Roberts.
(c) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(d) Toni Morrison.

2. What do white bodies often desire to do in relation to Black bodies, according to Menakem?
(a) Dominate, control, and brutalize Black ones.
(b) Accept Black ones.
(c) Assimilate with Black ones.
(d) Separate from Black ones.

3. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A tendency to not want to live alone.
(b) Problems having children.
(c) A tendency to travel more than often.
(d) A wide range of illnesses.

4. What does Menakem's mother tell him about his grandmother's feet?
(a) They are the toughest part of his grandmother's body.
(b) They have been broken many times.
(c) They are also callused from picking cotton.
(d) They helped his grandmother swim well.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does vicarious trauma involve?

2. What does unhealed trauma act like?

3. What does Menakem caution the reader about in regards to the physical activities he outlines?

4. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

5. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does an embedded trauma response in the body often manifest as, according to Menakem?

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

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

5. How does Menakem define the Jim Crow era?

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

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

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

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

10. What do people often think of when they hear the phrase white supremacy, and what is the reality of the situation, according to Menakem?

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