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

2. What does Menakem often tell people about resilience?
(a) It is very easy to learn.
(b) It is an attribute.
(c) It is a flow.
(d) It is not easy to learn.

3. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?
(a) Through food.
(b) Through the trees.
(c) Through church teachings.
(d) Through genes.

4. What happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?
(a) Stress hormones are released in their bodies.
(b) They often have heart attacks.
(c) They become overweight.
(d) They can no longer learn or keep going to school.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does white-body supremacy live, according to Menakem?

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

4. Where does trauma often spread?

5. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?

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