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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: This is Your Brain on Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Right limbic area.
(b) Visual cortex.
(c) Hippocampus.
(d) Broca's area.

2. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became a doctor.
(b) He became an accountant.
(c) He became a lawyer.
(d) He became a veterinarian.

3. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The self-preservation response.
(b) The empathetic response.
(c) The fight/flight response.
(d) The defensive response.

4. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?
(a) A
(b) A boost.
(c) A hand.
(d) An invitation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?

2. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?

3. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?

4. What is the first option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

5. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?

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