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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 happens when people experience repeated trauma over long periods?
(a) Stress hormones are released in their bodies.
(b) They become overweight.
(c) They often have heart attacks.
(d) They can no longer learn or keep going to school.

2. What does Menakem say his book presents some profound opportunities for?
(a) Healing and growth.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Learning math.
(d) Finality.

3. What does Menakem hope to help people with in respect to their bodies throughout the book, as he outlines it in Chapter 2?
(a) Get their bodies fitter.
(b) Get their bodies more used to being vegetarians.
(c) Reclaim their bodies.
(d) Leave their bodies.

4. In the end of Chapter 3, what does Menakem say Blacks have developed over many years?
(a) Thick emotional skin in many senses.
(b) High blood pressure.
(c) Good eyesight.
(d) Larger muscles.

5. What does Menakem say every therapist will tell people about healing?
(a) It involves paying for therapy.
(b) It involves writing letters.
(c) It involves music.
(d) It involves discomfort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?

2. In Chapter 6, which child's death affected Menakem very significantly?

3. What kind of torture from the Middle Ages does Menakem evoke in Chapter 16?

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

5. How many opposing forces does Menakem say a person will notice in attempting to mend trauma?

(see the answer key)

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