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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. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1854.

3. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

4. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?
(a) Her head.
(b) Her feet.
(c) Her neck.
(d) Her back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the term "neuroception" (74) to describe the capacity to evaluate the safety within a particular environment?

2. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

3. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

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

5. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

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