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

2. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 10 thousand.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 1 thousand.
(d) 1 million.

3. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

4. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?
(a) A watch.
(b) A hat.
(c) A medal.
(d) A scarf.

5. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?
(a) Over three-quarters.
(b) Under one-quarter.
(c) Over two-thirds.
(d) Over one-half.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

2. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?

3. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?

4. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?

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

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