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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. In the end of Chapter 3, who or what does Menakem ask the reader to envision?
(a) An ancestor.
(b) A baby animal.
(c) A flower.
(d) A sunset.

2. How many kinds of pain are there, according to Menakem?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

4. Who did Menakem once co-host a radio show with in Minneapolis?
(a) Ta-Nahisi Coates.
(b) Keith Ellison.
(c) Hedly Jackson.
(d) Toni Morrison.

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 are two characteristics of resilience?

2. How do many in American think of healing today?

3. What does Menakem ask Black readers to do at the end of Chapter 7?

4. Who wrote the essay "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space"?

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

(see the answer key)

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