Table 2: The original English version of NPQ.

T F U
1 It is possible to have pain and not know about it. ✔
2 When part of your body is injured, special pain
receptors convey the pain message to your brain.
✔
3 Pain only occurs when you are injured or at risk
of being injured.
✔
4 When you are injured, special receptors convey
the danger message to your spinal cord.
✔
5 Special nerves in your spinal cord convey 'danger'
messages to your brain.
✔
6 Nerves adapt by increasing their resting level
of excitement.
✔
7 Chronic pain means that an injury hasn't healed properly. ✔
8 Worse injuries always result in worse pain. ✔
9 Descending neurons are always inhibitory. ✔
10 Pain occurs whenever you are injured. ✔
11 When you injure yourself, the environment that
you are in will not affect the amount of pain you
experience, as long as the injury is exactly the same.
✔
12 The brain decides when you will experience pain. ✔

T: True; F: False; U: Undecided; ✔ = Correct