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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 55).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?
(a) In our bodies as well as our brains.
(b) In the air.
(c) In the textbooks.
(d) In the graveyards.

4. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves writing letters.
(b) It involves discomfort.
(c) It involves music.
(d) It involves paying for therapy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?

2. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

3. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?

4. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?

5. How does the Black body see the white body?

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