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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 describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?
(a) Birds.
(b) Fish.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Dogs.

2. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?
(a) Pheromones.
(b) Sweat.
(c) Stress hormones.
(d) Dopamine.

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

4. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?
(a) The right side of the brain.
(b) The left side of the brain.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The hippocampus.

5. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Behavioral Therapy.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

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

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

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