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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 do police officers need to retrain their bodies to do, according to Menakem in Chapter 9?
(a) Feel safe in the presence of Black bodies.
(b) Eat well.
(c) Run well.
(d) Sleep better.

2. What do white women in America suffer from high rates of?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Migranes.
(d) Bowel disease.

3. What is the fifth step of moving through clean pain concered with?
(a) Discharging any energy remaining.
(b) Staying in the here and now.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

4. What word describes a lack of regard and everyday stressors that people of color routinely experience?
(a) Undermining aggressions
(b) Micro-aggressions.
(c) Overt-aggressions.
(d) Hyper-aggressions.

5. Where does trauma often spread?
(a) Through bodies.
(b) Through housing.
(c) Through trees.
(d) Through flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Menakem call his list of the particular steps of moving through clean pain?

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

3. What does one do by healing his own trauma?

4. Which of the following does Menakem say about torture in the Middle Ages in England?

5. What are the practices that Menakem puts forward to the reader to help settle the body?

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