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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. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?
(a) At least half of their treatment.
(b) An adjunct in their overall treatment.
(c) Only part of their treatment during emergencies.
(d) The main treatment.

2. Who coined the term "neuroception" (74) to describe the capacity to evaluate the safety within a particular environment?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Jones.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Porges.

3. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?
(a) The bank.
(b) His high school classroom.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) His elementary school classroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?

2. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?

3. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?

4. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

5. In which war did the veterans fight who gave Van der Kolk a particular gift for Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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