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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Minds of Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

2. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 5.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

3. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
(a) Noam's mother.
(b) Noam's older sister.
(c) Noam's older brother.
(d) Noam's cousin.

4. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Present.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Happy.

5. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?

2. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

3. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?

4. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?

5. To whom is the epigraph for Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" attributed?

(see the answer key)

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