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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What should leaders in law enforcement do two to three times a year for their staff, according to Menakem?
(a) Bring in puppies.
(b) Bring in healers.
(c) Bring in singers.
(d) Bring in clowns.

4. Why does Menakem say that Officer Soppeland shot a motorcyclist in Chapter 8?
(a) He wanted to see how it felt to shoot someone.
(b) He was tired.
(c) His blood sugar was low.
(d) He had just experienced a high-stress situation and his lizard brain was acting.

5. What is never a valid excuse for murder, according to Menakem in Chapter 16?
(a) I was scared.
(b) I had been traumatized.
(c) Someone threatened me to do it.
(d) I had low blood sugar.

6. How many opposing forces does Menakem say a person will notice in attempting to mend trauma?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

7. What kind of energy might a person feel in the early stages of healing?
(a) Settling.
(b) Implicit.
(c) Protective.
(d) Intrusive.

8. Where does Menakem's brother live?
(a) Monterey.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Austin.
(d) Dallas.

9. Why did Officer Betty Shelby say she shot Terence Crutcher?
(a) Her partner told her Crutcher looked guilty.
(b) She was scared she was going to die.
(c) Her partner told her he did not have a gun and he felt threatened.
(d) She thought he had robbed a bank.

10. Where did Menakem's grandmother grow up?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Missouri.

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

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

13. Who shot Philando Castile?
(a) Officer Henley Bowen.
(b) Officer John Riley.
(c) Officer Jeronimo Yanez.
(d) Officer Heletia Brown.

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

15. What is one way that Menakem says will not work to try to end white-body supremacy?
(a) By singing.
(b) By helping law enforcement officials.
(c) By engaging in religious activities.
(d) By trying to tear it to pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the police officer who killed Philando Castile say he felt in danger?

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

3. What is another name for code words that are racially related?

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

5. Why does Menakem write that people often visit him for therapy?

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