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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 177 - 233).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the comedian Jon Stewart say about law enforcement in the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Police officers need serious retraining.
(b) Police officers should have to get to know everyone on their beat.
(c) There are good and bad police officers.
(d) You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.

2. How does Menakem define trauma in Chapter 8?
(a) As a problem that can not be solved.
(b) As anything the body perceives as too much, too fast, or too soon.
(c) As a fight to engage in with others.
(d) As unfinished business.

3. What does unhealed trauma act like?
(a) A rock thrown into a pond.
(b) A tornado.
(c) A fire.
(d) A plague.

4. What is the title of Barbara Tuchman's book?
(a) Underground Mirror.
(b) Dark Mirror.
(c) A Distant Mirror.
(d) Man in the Mirror Way.

5. What are some aspects of life that can unsettle our bodies?
(a) Public discourse, media, and policing.
(b) Reading a horror story.
(c) Eating too much.
(d) Singing the wrong notes in church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second step of moving through clean pain focused on?

2. Who is Menakem's newphew that he mentions in Chapter 8?

3. Who controlled nearly all the colonized territory in what would become the United States in the late 1600s?

4. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?

5. Who wrote "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"?

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