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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 111 - 175).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What years defined the Middle Ages?
(a) Roughly 1900 through 2000.
(b) Roughly 1600 through 1800.
(c) Roughly 500 through 1500.
(d) Roughly 200 through 400.

4. What is one thing that can be traumatizing to the police body, according to the re-memberings section in Chapter 8?
(a) Loud noises.
(b) Fires.
(c) Chronic stress.
(d) Repeated images of guns.

5. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?
(a) Finds a way to make it to the lowest point.
(b) Finds a way to read more deeply.
(c) Helps other bodies it encounters to settle as well.
(d) Helps other bodies escalate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?

2. Where does the largest part of the soul nerve travel?

3. What are two characteristics of resilience?

4. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?

5. Which years defined the Native American Decimation and European Colony Era?

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