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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 which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The frontal lobe.

2. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?
(a) Never existed.
(b) Is still happening.
(c) Will happen again.
(d) Has come to an end.

3. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?
(a) 21.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

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

5. Which individual or group was NOT mentioned among the people Maria was able to talk to as a result of her equine therapy?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Her horse.
(c) The other kids in the program.
(d) Her therapist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?

2. How old was Marilyn when Van der Kolk first began to treat her?

3. 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 ADD if a doctor focuses on which symptom?

4. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

5. At the end of Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement," Van der Kolk asserts that which poet must have had somewhat attentive parents?

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