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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 question about ancestors does Menakem ask readers to consider in Chapter 3?
(a) What did your ancestors do for a living?
(b) What will your ancestors tell you through meditation?
(c) When did your ancestors die?
(d) When did your ancestors settle in America?

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

3. How do many in American think of healing today?
(a) As unifying.
(b) As impossible.
(c) As binary.
(d) As political.

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

5. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?
(a) Star Wars.
(b) The Invisibles.
(c) 12 Years a Slave.
(d) Django Unchained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?

2. How does Menakem end each chapter?

3. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?

4. Who wrote the book Everyday Narcissism?

5. What does Menakem say is happening in America in 2017 early in Part I?

(see the answer key)

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