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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. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?
(a) Abram Kardiner.
(b) Elvin Semrad.
(c) Paul Harrington.
(d) Saul Zaentz.

2. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A pair of wings.
(c) A traffic cone.
(d) A trampoline.

3. The Polyvagal Theory involves the existence of how many different levels of response within the control of the autonomic nervous system?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

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

5. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?
(a) Queens.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Staten Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?

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

3. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?

4. 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?

5. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?

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