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

2. 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) Visual cortex.
(b) Right limbic area.
(c) Broca's area.
(d) Hippocampus.

3. In which war did the veterans fight who gave Van der Kolk a particular gift for Christmas?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

4. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

5. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?
(a) Spine.
(b) Heart.
(c) Brain.
(d) Guts.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?

2. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?

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

4. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?

5. 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?

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