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

2. What does Menakem advocate adding to one's life in Chapter 17 to improve it?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Softness.
(c) More cheese.
(d) Vegetables.

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

4. What sometimes happen when one chooses dirty pain over clean pain?
(a) He may turn to religion.
(b) Nothing - dirty pain is no different from clean pain.
(c) He may try to overeat.
(d) He may try to "push" his trauma through another body.

5. What movie does Menakem often show clips from in his workshops?
(a) The Invisibles.
(b) Star Wars.
(c) 12 Years a Slave.
(d) Django Unchained.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of Menakem's is surprised by police mistreatment against him in Chapter 8?

2. What does Menakem say it is not the job of Black people to do for white people in Chapter 15?

3. What does Menakem say police officers do not have to choose between?

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

5. Who wrote Killing the Black Body?

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