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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Imprint of Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with clinical depression if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Dissociation.
(b) Despair.
(c) Listlessness.
(d) Ennui.

2. Which group(s) of research subjects viewing the photograph of a father and his children free-associate violent stories?
(a) Both traumatized and normal.
(b) Only traumatized.
(c) Only normal.
(d) Neither traumatized nor normal.

3. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?
(a) Heart.
(b) Guts.
(c) Spine.
(d) Brain.

4. Which country's government was responsible for issuing the Southborough Report?
(a) The United States.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

5. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?
(a) Running.
(b) Flying.
(c) Jumping.
(d) Crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria told Van der Kolk that equine therapy had helped her make what types of connections with another living creature?

2. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?

3. Van der Kalk states that the "essence of trauma is" (195) all but which of the following?

4. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?

5. In what year did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?

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