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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a settled body do, as explained by Menakem in Chapter 8?
(a) Helps other bodies it encounters to settle as well.
(b) Helps other bodies escalate.
(c) Finds a way to make it to the lowest point.
(d) Finds a way to read more deeply.

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

3. What does Menakem say in Chapter 17 that police officers do NOT have a free pass to do?
(a) Assume someone is guilty.
(b) Assume someone is innocent.
(c) Fire someone.
(d) Harm someone.

4. What does Menakem call his list of the particular steps of moving through clean pain?
(a) The nine beings.
(b) The eight truths.
(c) The six steps.
(d) The five anchors.

5. What part of the body does most human behavior involve, according to Menakem?
(a) The nose.
(b) The eyes.
(c) The heart.
(d) The soul nerve.

6. Which of the following does Menakem suggest as an action to help a white body feel more settled in the presence of Black bodies?
(a) Join a gym with a clientele of mixed ethnicities.
(b) Sing in a choir.
(c) Take a hip hop dance class.
(d) Cook some recipes from the Black southern American tradition.

7. In which state were more white people lynched than Black people?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Florida.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Alabama.

8. How are police expected to act in many towns and communities, according to Menakem?
(a) Like friends.
(b) Like soldiers.
(c) Like religious leaders.
(d) Like teachers.

9. Why does Menakem write that people often visit him for therapy?
(a) To be with his settled, regulated nervous system.
(b) To make jokes with him.
(c) To see his fish tank.
(d) To look at his books.

10. What is the fifth step of moving through clean pain concered with?
(a) Singing.
(b) Discharging any energy remaining.
(c) Staying in the here and now.
(d) Dancing.

11. What traumatic historical event does Menakem ask the reader to look up online in Chapter 16?
(a) The Tulsa Race Massacre.
(b) The massacre at Mai Lai.
(c) Bloody Sunday.
(d) The Duluth lynchings.

12. What is the second step of moving through clean pain focused on?
(a) Singing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Journaling.
(d) Staying in the here and now.

13. What is life full of, according to Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah's quote in Chapter 12?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Fun.
(c) Pain.
(d) Laughter.

14. What is most police training, according to Menakem?
(a) Tactical.
(b) Non-verbal.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Psychological.

15. When has Menakem usually gotten most upset with his son Tezara?
(a) When his son has been disrespectful to his parents.
(b) When his son has put himself in danger.
(c) When his son does not do well in school.
(d) When his son has minimized racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do all adults need to learn how to do, according to Menakem?

2. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?

3. What is the truth about white bodies, according to Menakem in Chapter 15?

4. Where did Menakem lead a series of training sessions while he was writing this book?

5. Which of the following is settling a body explicitly NOT the same thing as, according to Menakem?

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