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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. Who drove his motorcycle at high speed and was then pulled over and shot by a police officer in 2016?
(a) Matthew Hovland-Knase.
(b) Rowan Ferguson.
(c) Henry Beade.
(d) Jim Brown.

2. What does an embedded trauma response in the body manifest itself as?
(a) Flight, flee, or freeze.
(b) A sleeping response.
(c) A non-specific hormonal response.
(d) A running response.

3. What are the practices that Menakem puts forward to the reader to help settle the body?
(a) Nourishment as well as medicine.
(b) Ways to better connect with a partner.
(c) Work-arounds to prevent actually having to do the work of healing.
(d) Final chances.

4. Which of the following is NOT necessary in order for one to do great harm, according to Charles Blow?
(a) Operating with great malice.
(b) Operating in concert.
(c) Operating in solitude.
(d) Operating with religious motivations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Menakem explicitly say is not a valid defense for murder?

2. What is the first step in healing when trauma is present, according to Menakem?

3. Who was crushed to death under a pile of rocks over a period of two days in 1692 in Salem?

4. Who shot Philando Castile?

5. What concepts were invented in the seventeenth century?

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