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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 57 - 109).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?
(a) Setting out meditative practices.
(b) Finding a partner.
(c) Educating someone on what trauma actually is.
(d) Helping someone learn to cook.

2. What does Menakem's own mother sometimes comment about, which frustrates him, regarding race?
(a) The size of people's feet.
(b) The color of people's eyes.
(c) The skin tone of others, in terms of lightness or darkness.
(d) The height of Black people in comparison to white people.

3. What part of our brain is similar to that of birds and lizards?
(a) Our frontal cortex.
(b) The brain stem, where the soul nerve connects to the brain.
(c) Our homonculus.
(d) Our Wernicke's Area.

4. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?
(a) It is dying.
(b) It is tearing itself apart.
(c) It is flourishing.
(d) It is undergoing a large migration.

5. What does unhealed trauma act like?
(a) A fire.
(b) A plague.
(c) A tornado.
(d) A rock thrown into a pond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one shortcut the lizard brain uses to decide how a body will react to another body, according to Menakem?

2. According to Toni Morrison's quote in Chapter 4, racism is which of the following?

3. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?

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

5. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?

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