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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 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.

2. What are trauma and other adverse childhood events associated with?
(a) A wide range of illnesses.
(b) Problems having children.
(c) A tendency to travel more than often.
(d) A tendency to not want to live alone.

3. What did Officer Soppeland do immediately after shooting Matthew Hovland-Knase?
(a) He sped away in his car.
(b) He froze and could not do anything.
(c) He flagged down a passerby to call 911.
(d) He got a first aid kit and started administering medical aid.

4. What did Martin Luther King Jr. believe about the ultimate measure of a man?
(a) It is defined by his access to education and wealth.
(b) It is defined by white man's definitions.
(c) It is defined by his words, not his actions.
(d) It is defined by where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

5. Besides trauma, what do humans sometimes pass from generation to generation?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Resilience.
(d) Haughtiness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does writer Nikki Giovanni say happens when you do not understand yourself in her quote in Chapter 9?

4. How can trauma be inherited, according to Menakem?

5. Which of the following is trauma NOT, according to Menakem in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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